Pearlie Kennedy Pettway

Pearlie Kennedy Pettway (1920-1982) bụ ónyé America na-emepụta ákwà. Ọ bụ otu n'ime ndị na-eme akwa akwa nke Gee's Bend. Ọrụ ya dị na Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A mụrụ Pearlie Kennedy na Boykin, Alabama (Gee's Bend) na 1920. O nwèrè nwanne nwoke, Herman Kennedy. Ọ lụrụ Horace Pettway, ónyé bụ nwanne nwunye nwanne ya nwoke, Mary Elizabeth Pettway.

Pettway mepụtara ihe mkpuchi Triangles ya n'ihe dị ka afọ 1960. A na-eji ihe owuwu eme ihe, nkè a makwaara dị ka Triangles Creating Squares-within-Squares (Housetop) Motif, nkè a na-akpọ ihe owuwu. A gụnyere ya na nchịkọta nke Metropolitan Museum of Art, onyinye nke Souls Grown Deep Foundation na 2014. Ozugbo a na-enweghị ike idozi uwe, Pettway ga-eji ihe sitere na uwe mkpuchi, uwe, na uwe elu iji mepụta akwa. A na-eji ogho na denim rụọ ihe owuwu ya, nke e mere n'ihe dị ka n'afọ 1950,. Dị ka nwa ya nwanyị Florida Irby si kwuo, Pettway na-ejikwa akpa ntụ ọka na ákwà 25 lb. ọ nwetara na Camden, na-eji ákwà fọdụrụ iji mee akwa.

Pettway nwụrụ na 1982 na Boykin.

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