From pieced block to Crazy style to Colonial Revival, as well as one-of-a-kind creations, the full array of style and design appears in this exhibition covering seven decades of quiltmaking. Quilts reflect the times in which they are created, often mirroring societal shifts and transformations. Rapid change, bringing conflict between technological progress and nostalgia for a simpler time, impacts today’s culture. The same tension also shaped America’s “modern age”: the period between 1870 and 1940 when America was growing at an unprecedented pace and struggling to come to terms with what it meant to be a modern, industrialized nation.