![]() ![]() ![]() Prints are available either unframed or framed. Printed on 100% acid-free cotton fine art paper. This print has been produced with the highest quality pigmented, non-toxic, environmentally friendly ink with a color permanence rating of at least 200-year stability. With her story quilts, Ringgold challenges gender and racial stereotypes through textile arts which have often been dismissed by Western tradition as a domestic craft. In this oasis, a young girl named Cassie Louise Lightfoot lies on a mattress with her younger brother as the adults play cards at the table and the laundry hangs out to dry. The titular “tar beach” refers to the rooftop garden of this family’s Harlem apartment, which provided them and other city dwellers with an oasis from the bustle of the New York streets below. Ringgold is best known for her story quilts, which draw on the African American storytelling tradition. ITEM IS MADE ON-DEMAND.įaith Ringgold, American, 1930-Present. ![]()
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