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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Quilts of Gee's Bend, Alabama

This is a painting I like by Artist Wolf Kahn, called Blue Puddle.   http://www.amy-nyc.com/gallery/ He is represented by Ameringer Gallery in New York.

  The next two photos are from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rothstein 

1930's Photogropher of The Great Depression in the South


This is an interesting new website that my youngest daughter Lee Ann told me about,
http://www.quiltsofgeesbend.com/



And the local history of Gee's Bend, Alabama, a rural area southwest of Selma, Alabama  http://www.prairiebluff.com/blackbelt/geesbend.html

History of Gee's Bend Plantation
 http://www2.arkansas.net/~mgee/articles.html
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman_on_the_Gees_Bend_Plantation.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pettway_Plantation_Gees_Bend_Alabama.jpg