Born in Gee’s Bend (now Boykin), Alabama (b. 1935)

Mary Lee Bendolph

Quilt in “IEEE” Variation, 2009

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© 2022 Mary Lee Bendolph/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Ian Reeves.

Mary Lee Bendolph. Photo by Juan Arce, courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2019.

“I never did go by a pattern. Didn't none us. I mostly take after my aunt Louella, but I never make a quilt altogether like anybody.”

—Mary Lee Bendolph