{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"6099"},"thesconceptsTechnique":{"label":"Technique","value":"http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26840"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of George and Gail Feher"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"2005"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2017    23    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2017.23.1"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":""},"edition":{"label":"Photo Credit","value":"Adam Reich"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Etching with aquatint in colors on Somerset textured paper"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Berkeley"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/26618/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"26618"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Mama's Song"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Berkeley"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint.Somerset white texturedImage size: 33\" x 24\"Paper size: 42 ½\" x 32\"Edition of 50","Mary Lee Bendolph has been called one of Gee\u2019s Bend \u201ccommunity memory keepers.\u201d In 1999 she was the subject of \u201cCrossing Over,\u201d the Los Angeles Times\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning article about the effort to reestablish ferry service across the Alabama River. She was one of many members of the Gee\u2019s Bend community who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Camden, Alabama in 1965. It has been noted that her quiltmaking style \u201cmarries a flair for improvisation to traditional construction techniques that emphasize rectangles and squares.\u201d The etching represents a unique and innovative collaboration between the quilt artist and a master printer under direct contract with Paulson Press in Berkeley, California. As described by the press: \u201cCollaborating with master printers, several of the women [Gee\u2019s Bend quilt artists] have recently made these etchings under a direct contract with Paulson Press in Berkeley, CA. The etchings are the result of an innovative technique devised to make a transfer from an actual small scaled, sampler quilt to an etching plate coated with a thin layer of wax and then treated with acid to create the printable image.\u201d","Object information is a work in progress and may be updatedwith new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk ArtMuseum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Works on Paper"},"portfolio":{"label":"Portfolio","value":"Edition 19/40"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Berkeley"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"156197"},"geographyState":{"value":"California"},"thesconceptsMaterials":{"label":"Materials","value":"http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26840"},"markings":{"label":"Markings","value":"Printer\u2019s blind stamp lower right"},"signed":{"label":"Signed","value":"lower right: 'Mary L. Bendolph, 2005'"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":[{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"2551","content":"Mary Lee Bendolph"},{"displayOrder":"2","personRole":"Publisher","personID":"3496","content":"Paulson Fontaine Press"}]},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Prints"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint.Somerset white texturedImage size: 33\" x 24\"Paper size: 42 ½\" x 32\"Edition of 50","Mary Lee Bendolph has been called one of Gee\u2019s Bend \u201ccommunity memory keepers.\u201d In 1999 she was the subject of \u201cCrossing Over,\u201d the Los Angeles Times\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning article about the effort to reestablish ferry service across the Alabama River. 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The etchings are the result of an innovative technique devised to make a transfer from an actual small scaled, sampler quilt to an etching plate coated with a thin layer of wax and then treated with acid to create the printable image.\u201d","Object information is a work in progress and may be updatedwith new research. 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