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.

gollark: I mostly don't mind open WiFi networks because my stuff has various forms of encrypted DNS configured and MitM attacks aren't very practical now.
gollark: Oh, and also track how often people return and such.
gollark: That would require you to actually connect, though.
gollark: You can tell where people tend to linger in your shop, say. I'm not sure how much/how this gets associated with other data, though.
gollark: I think it's randomized per-scan, although I'm not certain.

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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2019-04-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "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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