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Deep About our Prints Help Home Artists Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers Beyond Gee’s Bend Nellie Mae Abrams Willie "Ma Willie" Abrams Annie Bendolph Mary Lee Bendolph Delia Bennett Linda Diane Bennett Loretta Pettway Bennett Mary L. Bennett Rachel Carey George Gloria Hoppins America Irby Nettie Jane Kennedy Lucy Mingo Lottie Mooney Flora Moore Aolar Mosely Annie E. Pettway Arcola Pettway Creola Bennett Pettway Essie Bendolph Pettway Jessie T. Pettway Lola Pettway Loretta Pettway Lucy T. Pettway Martha Pettway Martha Jane Pettway Mensie Lee Pettway Nancy Pettway Qunnie Pettway Rita Mae Pettway Sue Willie Seltzer Florine Smith Gearldine Westbrook Irene Williams Magdalene Wilson Joe Light Ronald Lockett Nellie Mae Rowe Mose Tolliver Purvis Young Your order supports the artists and the work of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. Quilts "Housetop" and variations "Bricklayer" and variations Work-clothes quilts Strip and Strings Quilts Your order supports the artists and the work of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. Assemblages Drawings Paintings View All Images Custom Prints and Framing from the artists of Souls Grown Deep Gee’s Bend quiltmakers and other celebrated Black artists from the American South Shop All Images CLOSE Home About Our Prints Help View Cart Visit soulsgrowndeep.org View All Images Artists Subjects Featured Categories Medium All Quilts Full View Quilts Detail View Quilts Assemblages Drawings Paintings Time Period Early 20th century Mid century Late 20th century Contemporary Sears Corduroy Using scraps of corduroy left over from a narrowly defined production project by the Freedom Quilting Bee for Sears Roebuck, Gee’s Bend quiltmakers had the materials to spark each other’s individual creativity in an unprecedented way. View the full Sears Corduroy collection, including all full-view and detail-view images, here . Featured Collections Mid-Century Gee’s Bend After the end of World War II, mainstream artists and designers were animated by a style that became known as Mid-century modern.” Working in isolation from outside trends and fashions, Gee’s Bend artists were working through their own interpretations of the spirit of the time. Work Clothes Quilts Quilts made from worn-out work clothes, old shirts, overalls, aprons and dress bottoms whose stains, tears, and faded denim patches are marked by seasons of hard labor in the fields. Gee’s Bend Quilts Gee’s Bend Quilts The women of Gee’s Bend—a small, remote, Black community in Alabama —have created hundreds of quilt masterpieces dating from the early twentieth century to the present. Featured Artists Mary Lee Bendolph One of the best-known and most revered Gee’s Bend quiltmakers, Mary Lee Bendolph (b. 1935), has spent many decades transforming scraps of old cloth into aesthetic marvels. Joe Light Influenced by graffiti and pop culture imagery, Joe Light (b. 1934) was a deeply religious artist, focused on finding spiritual enlightenment. Martha Pettway Born in Gee’s Bend in 1911, Martha Pettway is best known for the quilts she made from the late 1920s to the 1940s. About Our Prints Supporting the Artists Through a pioneering revenue-sharing model, Souls Grown Deep has made artists or their estates equal partners in profits from the sale of all prints and frames. Purchases are a great way to directly support Black artists from the American South and the mission of Souls Grown Deep to promote their work and support their communities by fostering economic empowerment, racial and social justice, and educational advancement. Prints on Archival Paper Framing includes a 2 1/2 inch white mat with a wide range of wood mouldings to choose from. Paper prints can also be ordered unframed with a 2 inch border around the image area. Stretched Canvas Prints Prints on canvas are all stretched over a 1 1/2 inch deep stretcher frame and are ready to hang whether framed or not. Framing options for canvas are exclusively "Floater" style, where the frame surrounds the edge of the stretched canvas without touching it. SOULS GROWN DEEP FOUNDATION Souls Grown Deep advocates the inclusion of Black artists from the South in the canon of American art history and fosters economic empowerment, racial and social justice, and educational advancement in the communities that gave rise to these artists. Visit soulsgrowndeep.org Print Store About Custom Prints Help Contact Info Shopping Cart Follow Us Copyright © 2024 Souls Grown Deep. All...