Mary Elizabeth Kennedy

Mary Elizabeth Kennedy (1911–1991) is an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters.[1] Her work is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[2]

Early life

Mary Elizabeth was born in Boykin, Alabama to Reverend Spurllin Pettway and his wife on a sharecropping and subsistence farm. Their main crops were cotton and sorghum.[3] Kennedy married Houston Kennedy and they bore 12 children.[3]

She died at 80 years old in a car crash returning to Boykin from Selma.

References

  1. ^ John Beardsley; William Arnett; Paul Arnett; Jane Livingston (2002). Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts. Tinwood Books. pp. 238–. ISBN 978-0-9719104-0-9.
  2. ^ "Mary Elizabeth Kennedy | Log Cabin quilt | the Met". Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
  3. ^ a b "Mary Elizabeth Kennedy | Souls Grown Deep Foundation". www.soulsgrowndeep.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
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