Mary Elizabeth Kennedy

Mary Elizabeth Kennedy (1911–1991) is an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters.

[1] Her work is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[2] Mary Elizabeth was born in Boykin, Alabama to Reverend Spurllin Pettway and his wife on a sharecropping and subsistence farm.

[3] She died at 80 years old in a car crash returning to Boykin from Selma.

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