Category: gees bend quilts
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Gee’s Bend Quilts: Lucy Mingo
LUCY MINGO Nine Appliqué Blocks—”Tulip” Variation (1960s) // Cotton and cotton/polyester blend; 96 x 96 inches
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Gee’s Bend Quilts: Sally Mae Pettway Mixon
SALLY MAE PETTWAY MIXON Blocks (2020) // Cotton; 60 x 52 inches
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Gee’s Bend Quilts: Bettie Bendolph Seltzer
BETTIE BENDOLPH SELTZER Flower Garden Quilt (1990) // Cotton; 100 x 79 inches
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Gee’s Bend Quilts: Irene Williams
IRENE WILLIAMS Blocks And Strips (2003) // Cotton and polyester; 87 x 74 inches
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Gee’s Bend Quilts: Sue Willie Seltzer
“I was born down there in Jones’s, way down there further, toward Gee’s Bend. I come up the hard way.”
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Gee’s Bend Quilts: Deborah Pettway Young
Deborah Pettway Young was an American artist who is associated with the Gee’s Bend quiltmakers. She never worked from preexisting patterns, while she could look at any dress or quilt and replicate it herself without any guidance.
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Gee’s Bend Quilts: Rita Mae Pettway
Raised by her grandmother, Rita Mae Pettway has been making quilts her whole life, part of the Gee’s Bend Quilt-making community.
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Gee’s Bend Quilts: Loretta Pettway
Loretta Pettway was born in 1942 and had many quilt-making mentors growing up, Missouri, Louella, Qunnie, her grandmother Prissy, and stepmother Plummer T., but has found her own artistic journey to make some exquisite quilts. Her earliest surviving quilts are made of everyday…