Basket-Weave quilt ,

Nettie Jane Kennedy

Not on view

Public Domain

Object Details

Artist: Nettie Jane Kennedy (American, Boykin, Alabama 1916–2002 Boykin, Alabama)

Date: 1973

Medium: Top: cotton; back: cotton-polyester blend

Dimensions: 80 1/8 × 80 3/4 in. (203.5 × 205.1 cm)

Classification: Textiles

Credit Line: Gift of Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection, 2014

Accession Number: 2014.548.45

Rights and Reproduction: © Nettie Jane Kennedy

the artist, Gee's Bend, Ala. (1973–2000; in 2000 to Arnett); William S. Arnett, Atlanta (2000–2002; his gift in 2002 to Tinwood Alliance); Tinwood Alliance, Atlanta (2002–10; transfer in 2010 to Souls Grown Deep); Souls Grown Deep Foundation, Atlanta (2010–14; their gift to MMA)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "The Quilts of Gee's Bend," September 8–November 10, 2002, unnumbered cat. (p. 198; lent by the William Arnett Collection of the Tinwood Alliance).

New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "The Quilts of Gee's Bend," November 21, 2002–March 9, 2003, unnumbered cat.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt," June 4–September 4, 2006, unnumbered cat. (p. 103; lent by the Tinwood Alliance, Atlanta).

Indianapolis Museum of Art. "Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt," October 8–December 31, 2006, unnumbered cat.

Orlando Museum of Art. "Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt," January 28–April 22, 2007, unnumbered cat.

Baltimore. Walters Art Museum. "Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt," June 17–August 26, 2007, unnumbered cat.

Tacoma, Wash. Tacoma Art Museum. "Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt," September 25–December 9, 2007, unnumbered cat.

Louisville, Ky. Speed Art Museum. "Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt," December 23, 2007–March 16, 2008, unnumbered cat.

Denver Museum of Art. "Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt," April 13–July 6, 2008, unnumbered cat.

Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt," August 2–October 2, 2008, unnumbered cat.

Lauren Whitley in Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt. Ed. Paul Arnett, Joanne Cubbs, and Eugene W. Metcalf Jr. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Atlanta, 2006, p. 95, ill. p. 103 (color).

Amelia Peck. My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2018, p. 70, 107, colorpl. 35.