Lillie Mae Pettway

     Lillie Mae Pettway (Image by Stephanie Harvey)

Lillie Mae Pettway  (1927 - 1990) was born in Gee’s Bend, Alabama. She is the daughter of Aolar Mosley and older sister to Mary Lee Bendolph.

Lillie Mae’s work was included in the first major museum exhibition introducing Gee’s Bend to the art world in 2002, The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, originating at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Additional museum venues for this exhibition include the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Orlando Museum of Art, The Walters Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, the Speed Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum and the Philadelphia Art Museum.

Work by Lillie Mae Pettway is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

 

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