Molly Upton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Molly Upton

Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1953

Place of Birth: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 30-Mar-1977

Profession: quilter

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Martha Neill Upton (September 30, 1953, Pittsfield, Massachusetts – March 30, 1977, San Francisco, California) was a watercolorist, sculptor and studio quilt artist.
Her quilted tapestries helped quilts become seen as fine art, rather than craft work, during the early 1970s.
Her quilts were 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.