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Celebrated for her dynamic compositions and skillful use of color in jazz-like syncopated rhythms, Mary Lee Bendolph is considered one of the matriarchs of the deep-rooted quilting tradition in Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Surrounded on three sides by a deeply curving river, this remote community of African American quilt makers came to international acclaim when their work travelled to major museums in the United States starting in 2002. Over the past decade, Bendolph has collaborated with master printmakers at Paulson Bott Press in Berkeley, California to create fine art etchings based on her quilt patterns. To Honor Mr. Dial pays tribute to self-taught artist Thornton Dial (1928–2016).
-Ellen Alvord, Weatherbie Curator of Education and Academic Programs, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (Sept. 2016)
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Etching; Aquatint Link to share this object record:
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