Out of scraps and dire conditions, the women of Gee’s Bend pioneered a world-renowned art of their own. We’re grateful to have acquired nine quilts from Gee’s Bend artists in recent years. . . . . 📷 Quilt by Marlene Bennett Jones. “A quilt tells no lie.” 📷 Arthur Rothstein, “Gee’s Bend, Alabama,” gelatin silver print, 6 3/8 × 8 3/8 in., National Gallery Collection 📷 Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio, Souls Grown Deep 📷 “Claudia Pettway Charley (left), Tinnie Pettway (center), and Francesca Charley: Three generations of Gee's Bend quilters,” Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio, Souls Grown Deep 📷 Mary Margaret Pettway (left) Greg Lauren (center), and a model wearing the Mosaic: Gee’s Bend and Greg Lauren collection, Menelik Puryear/Courtesy of Gee’s Bend 📷 Quilts hanging from a fence during the annual Gee’s Bend Airing of the Quilts Festival. Photo © Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio 📷 The quilts of Mary Lee Bendolph, Ellen Alvord #art #geesbend #history #news #quilt #usa #explore #explo...