# @ngadc on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DL3YkOysGOQ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32216510-ngadc-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-08T23:32:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Gallery of Art (@ngadc) — https://gondola.cc/ngadc

## Caption

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. 
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📷 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 #explorepage

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