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Velda Newman is a contemporary American quilter from Northern California, specializing in close-up depictions of the natural world. Common subjects for her quilts are flowers, fruit, and fish.

Newman has received numerous national and international quilting awards, including her quilt "Hydrangea" being listed as one of "The 20th Century's 100 Best Quilts".

References

1. Caudell, Robin (10 June 2013). "Gallery takes on extreme nature quilts". Press-Republican. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
2. Caryl Bryer Fallert (11 July 2011). "100 best quilts of the 20th century with links to pictures". bryerpatch.com. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
3. "Art Quilts by Velda Newman". The Art of the Quilt. Retrieved 4 September 2020.

Further reading

• Shaw, Robert (1997). The Art Quilt. Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. ISBN 9780883633250.
• Shaw, Robert (2014). American Quilts: The Democratic Art. Sterling. ISBN 978-1454913979.

External links

• Official website
• http://www.artofthequilt.com/newman.html

• 21st-century American women artists
• American quilters
• Living people
• 21st-century women textile artists
• 21st-century American textile artists
• Textile artists from California
• 20th-century American women artists
• 20th-century women textile artists
• 20th-century American textile artists