Mary Elizabeth Kennedy Explained

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.

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

Notes and References

  1. Book: John Beardsley. William Arnett. Paul Arnett. Jane Livingston. Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts. 2002. Tinwood Books. 978-0-9719104-0-9. 238–.
  2. Web site: Mary Elizabeth Kennedy | Log Cabin quilt | the Met . 2019-04-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190420193402/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/654085 . 2019-04-20 . live .
  3. Web site: Mary Elizabeth Kennedy Souls Grown Deep Foundation. www.soulsgrowndeep.org. 2019-06-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20190423022423/http://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/mary-elizabeth-kennedy. 2019-04-23. live.

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