Martha Neill Upton, (September30, 1953 Pittsfield, Massachusetts – March30, 1977 San Francisco, California) was a watercolorist, sculptor and studio quilt artist. Her quilted tapestries influenced the concept of quilts as fine art, rather than considered craft work, during the early 1970s. They were among the quilts shown in the first major museum exhibition of non-traditional quilts, The New American Quilt at New York's Museum of Arts and Design, then called the Museum of Contemporary Craft, in 1976.
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30 September 1953 (age 71)
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Zodiac | Libra |
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