About Mary Elizabeth Kennedy
Lived 1911 – 1991 (aged 79–80). Mary Elizabeth Kennedy was an American artist and quiltmaker.
Mary Elizabeth Kennedy (1911–1991) is an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters. Her work is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Early life Mary Elizabeth was born in Boykin, Alabama to Reverend Spurllin Pettway and his wife on a sharecropping and subsistence farm. Their main crops were cotton and sorghum. Kennedy married Houston Kennedy and they bore 12 children.
She died at 80 years old in a car crash returning to Boykin from Selma.
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Who was Mary Elizabeth Kennedy?
American artist (1911–1991)
When was Mary Elizabeth Kennedy born?
Mary Elizabeth Kennedy was born in 1911 in Boykin.
When did Mary Elizabeth Kennedy die?
Mary Elizabeth Kennedy died in 1991.
What was Mary Elizabeth Kennedy's occupation?
Mary Elizabeth Kennedy was an artist and quiltmaker.
What nationality was Mary Elizabeth Kennedy?
Mary Elizabeth Kennedy was American.
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