PROFILE // Pennsylvania Daughter Anne Buckwalter

A Room of Her Own

Anne Buckwalter’s ‘Power Clash’ quilt paintings  

by Heather Shayne Blakeslee

EXCERPT //

In the closets? Traditional English floral prints by Laura Ashley that would make any contemporary trad-wife swoon with envy—as well as any of the town’s “confirmed bachelors.” Laura Ashley prints—originally hand-painted or stenciled patterns—also covered many of the walls, which were home to any number of cuckoo clocks. At my uncle Harvey and aunt Lois’ house, the hourly visitations of multiple cuckoos were a childish delight during the day and nightmarish demons at night, especially when paired with the loud and lumbering tick-tock of the grandfather clock in the short hall.  

All of this to say: If you know, you know. 

When I first saw the paintings of artist Anne Buckwalter in the online Brooklyn-based art magazine Hyperallergic, my immediate reaction was: This woman is from Pennsylvania. //

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