Search results

Deborah Pettway Young (1916–1997) was an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters. Pronounced "D-bora", Deborah Pettway Young...

Pettway may refer to: Deborah Pettway Young (1916–1997), an American textile artist Jerry Pettway, an American basketball player Jessie T. Pettway, an...

the Young Plantation to sharecrop. Nettie was raised on the Young Plantation after sharecropping when her father and her step-mother, Deborah Pettway Young...

Mary Boykin Robinson, China Grove Myles, Lucy Marie Mingo, Nettie Pettway Young, and Polly Mooney Bennett. Mary Lee Bendolph of Gee's Bend also participated...

Joanna Pettway (1924 - 1993) was an American quilt artist and daughter of Gees Bend quilter Martha Jane Pettway. Pettway was born in 1924 in Gees Bend...

Treasures series. In 2007, two Gee's Bend quiltmakers, Annie Mae Young and Loretta Pettway, filed lawsuits alleging that curator and art collector William...

Young was one of twelve children born to Lula and Albert Pettway. Albert Pettway grew cotton, corn, peas, sweet potatoes, and sorghum cane. Young mostly...

Loretta Pettway (born 1942) is an American artist and quilt maker of the Gee's Bend Collective from Boykin, Alabama. Her quilts are known for their bold...

Missouri Pettway (1902-1981) was an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective. In 2020, the National Gallery of Art acquired...

Arcola Young was raised by her mother, Deborah Young, and her grandfather, Reverend Paul S. Pettway. Her mother also raised Young's cousin, Leola Pettway. Leola...

Mae Pettway Mixon (born 1965) is an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective, alongside her mother, Candis Pettway, and...

Louella Pettway (1921–2006), also known as Luella Pettway, was an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective and the Freedom...

Henrietta Pettway's life as a young person, but her life was told through an interview with her daughter-in-law, Allie Pettway. Pettway's son, John the...

Lucy P. Pettway (1930–2003) was an American quilter. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective. Pettway's quilt titled Housetop - Nine-Block...

quilters, alongside her daughters Qunnie Pettway, Sally Mae Pettway, and Edwina Pettway. Candis Mosely married Tank Pettway and together they raised sixteen children...

Qunnie Pettway (1943–2010) was an American artist. She worked for the Freedom Quilting Bee and is associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters. Her...

learned to quilt from her mother, Candis Pettway, alongside her sisters Qunnie Pettway and Sally Mae Pettway. Her quilts are known for mixing the Gee's...

Belinda Pettway. Annie Bell Pettway was the oldest daughter, and second oldest child, of Clement Pettway and Cherokee Pettway. Her father became sick and...

Loretta Pettway Bennett (born December 29, 1960) is an American artist. She is associated with the Freedom Quilting Bee, where her mother, Qunnie Pettway, worked...

Quilts Matter: Biographies". "Mary Lee Bendolph, Lucy Mingo, and Loretta Pettway: Quilters of Gee's Bend". www.arts.gov. National Endowment for the Arts...