Bibliography and Exhibitions
MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
BEARDSLEY, JOHN, et al.
Gee's Bend: The Women and their Quilts.
Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002.
432 pp., color plates, bibliog., index of artists, general index (including quilt pattern names). Forward by Peter Marzio; intro. Alvia Wardlaw, texts by John Beardsley, William and Paul Arnett, Jane Livingston. Published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition The Quilts of Gee's Bend, but this is a different, larger and more comprehensive publication than the book by that name. The quilts are from the William Arnett Collection of the Tinwood Alliance. 136 women quiltmakers of Gee's Bend included: Nellie Mae Abrams, Ma Willie Abrams, Annie Bendolph, Ella Bendolph, Indiana Bendolph, Louisiana Bendolph, Mary Lee Bendolph, Agatha Bennett, Amelia Bennett, Delia Bennett, Linda Diane Bennett, Margaret Bennett, Mary L. Bennett, Polly Mooney Bennett, Maggie Benning, Sarah Benning, Willie Ann Benning, Della Mae Bridges, Elizabeth Carson, Virginia Carson, Minder Coleman, Minnie Sue Coleman, Ruby Gamble, Rachel Corey George, Eddie Leo P. Green, Josie Lee Hall, Pearly Pettway Hall, Gloria Hoppins, America Irby, Ella Mae Irby, Rebecca Myles Jones, Sally Bennett Jones, Clementine Parker Kennedy, Lavinia Kennedy, Mary Elizabeth Kennedy, Moultree Kennedy, Nettie Jane Kennedy, Ruth Kennedy, Seebell Kennedy, Lizzie Major, Nazareth Major, Helen McCloud, Ora McDaniels, Gertrude Miller, Lucy Mingo, Lottie Mooney, Lucy Mooney, Mary Mooney, Flora Moore, Aolar C. Mosely, Jeanette Mosely, Patsy Mosely, Rivel Mosely (as Revil), Ruth P. Mosely, Virginia Mosely, China Grove Myles, Sadie Bell Nelson, Addie Pearl Nicholson, Mertline Perkins, Allie Pettway, Annette Pettway, Annie Bell Pettway, Annie E. Pettway, Arcola Pettway, Arie Pettway, Arlonzia Pettway, Beatrice Pettway, Belinda Pettway, Candis Pettway, Cherokee Parker Pettway, China Pettway, City Pettway, Creola Pettway, Emma Mae Hall Pettway, Essie Bendolph Pettway, Daisy Pettway, Giogianna Pettway, Henrietta Pettway, Indiana Bendolph Pettway, Jennie Pettway, Jesse T. Pettway, Joanna Pettway, Joerina Pettway, Laureen C. Pettway, Leola Pettway, Lilie Mae Pettway, Linda Pettway, Lola Pettway, Loretta Pettway, Lorraine Pettway, Lottie Pettway, Louella C. Pettway, Lucy P. Pettway, Lucy T. (Lunky) Pettway, Lutisha Pettway, Malissia Pettway, Marie Pettway, Martha Jane Pettway, Mary Ann Bendolph Pettway, Mary Lisa Pettway, Mensie Lee Pettway, Missouri Pettway, Nellie Pettway, Nellie Mae Pettway, Nell Parker Pettway, Pearlie Irby Pettway, Pearlie Kennedy Pettway, Pleasant Pettway, Plummer T. Pettway, Prissy Pettway, Qunnie Pettway, Rita Mae Pettway, Stella Mae Pettway, Sweet T. Pettway, Virginia Pettway, Mattie Ross, Bettie Bendolph Seltzer, Sue Willie Seltzer, Florine Smith, Mary Spencer, Fannie T. Westbrook, Geraldine Westbrook, Hannah Wilcox, Andrea Williams, Irene Williams, Liza Jane Williams, Nell Hall Williams, Patty Ann Williams, Magdalene Wilson, Estelle Witherspoon, Lucy P. Witherspoon, Annie Mae Pettway Young, Callie Young, Deborah Pettway Young, Ethel Young, Nettie Young. 4to (13.4 x 11.6 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
MARZIO, PETER, JOHN BEARDSLEY, et al.
The Quilts of Gee's Bend: Masterpieces from a Lost Place.
Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002.
192 pp., 195 illus. (162 in color), index of artists, index. Text by John Beardsley, William Arnett, Paul Arnett, Jane Livingston, Alvia Wardlaw (Introduction), Peter Marzio. All 101 artists listed in the artists index are cross-referenced although they are not listed in this book description. Note: This is not the same book as Gee's Bend: The Women and their Quilts which is a larger and more substantial publication. Gee's Bend, Alabama, is a hamlet of 750 residents, many of whom are the descendants of slaves from the former Pettway plantation (and bear the surname Pettway), who during the New Deal purchased farms from the government. For much of the last century, the women of Gee's Bend have produced striking examples of American vernacular quiltmaking art, sharing them among the community and storing them within their homes. The first major monograph, accompanying a traveling exhibition. 4to (13.4 x 11.5 in.), cloth.