One of the many displays in the Renwick Gallery’s new exhibition, “State Fairs: Growing American Craft,” dedicated to artists’ contributions to the great U.S. tradition of state fairs with more than 240 artworks on view, dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Created by Peggie L. Hartwell of Summerville, SC, this quilt depicts her grandparents as she remembers them in the 1940s, standing in a field of the cotton they picked as sharecroppers, with flowers blossoming at their feet.

'Big Tex’s Boots' (2013), posted earlier: