Pearlie Posey (1894-1984) was an American quilt artist and mother of Sarah Mary Taylor.

[1][2] She taught her quilting technique to her daughter Sarah Mary Taylor and eventually created templates for Taylor's quilts.

[3] Her work is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art[4] and the American Folk Art Museum.

[5] Her work was included in the 2008-2009 traveling exhibition entitled Ancestry & Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum presented by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

[2] She was included in the 2009 exhibition Quilt Stories: The Ella King Torrey Collection of African American Quilts and Other Recent Quilt Acquisitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.