Artist
Mary Lee Bendolph
American, b. 1935
Mary Lee Bendolph is an American artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Mary Lee Bendolph was born in Boykin.
Mary Lee Bendolph is an American quilt maker of the Gee's Bend Collective from Gee's Bend (Boykin), Alabama. Her work has been influential on subsequent quilters and artists and her quilts have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the country. Bendolph uses fabric from used clothing for quilting in appreciation of the "love and spirit" with old cloth. Bendolph has spent her life in Gee's Bend and has had work featured in the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minnesota.
Collections represented
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