Mama's Song2005Image: 33 x 24 " (83.8 x 61 cm)
Frame Dimension: 44 3/4 x 34 1/2 " (113.7 x 87.6 cm)Etching with aquatint in colors on Somerset textured paperGift of George and Gail Feher2017.23.101561976099Mary Lee BendolphPaulson Fontaine PressPrintslower left: '19/50 Mama’s Song'Printer’s blind stamp lower rightlower right: 'Mary L. Bendolph, 2005'http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26840BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited StatesCaliforniaWorks on Paper
Adam ReichBerkeleyEdition 19/40Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint.Somerset white texturedImage size: 33" x 24"Paper size: 42 ½" x 32"Edition of 50Mary Lee Bendolph has been called one of Gee’s Bend “community memory keepers.” In 1999 she was the subject of “Crossing Over,” the Los Angeles Times’s Pulitzer Prize-winning article about the effort to reestablish ferry service across the Alabama River. She was one of many members of the Gee’s Bend community who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Camden, Alabama in 1965. It has been noted that her quiltmaking style “marries a flair for improvisation to traditional construction techniques that emphasize rectangles and squares.” 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: “Collaborating with master printers, several of the women [Gee’s 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.”Object information is a work in progress and may be updated
with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art
Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orghttp://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26840http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26840http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster2684020052005 2017 23 1 Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint.Somerset white texturedImage size: 33" x 24"Paper size: 42 ½" x 32"Edition of 50Mary Lee Bendolph has been called one of Gee’s Bend “community memory keepers.” In 1999 she was the subject of “Crossing Over,” the Los Angeles Times’s Pulitzer Prize-winning article about the effort to reestablish ferry service across the Alabama River. She was one of many members of the Gee’s Bend community who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Camden, Alabama in 1965. It has been noted that her quiltmaking style “marries a flair for improvisation to traditional construction techniques that emphasize rectangles and squares.” 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: “Collaborating with master printers, several of the women [Gee’s 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.”Object information is a work in progress and may be updated
with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art
Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org