Linda Diane Bennett

Like her mother, Ella Mae Irby, and her grandmother, Delia Bennett, Linda Diane Bennett was born and raised in Gee's Bend, Alabama. She balanced year-round school and farming, along with her parents and siblings. Once completing high school, she became deputy sheriff of Wilcox County, Alabama. She also worked in the courthouse. Bennett died unexpectedly at her job at the courthouse in 1988.

Bennett borrowed heavily from her mother and grandmother's aesthetic and practice. She worked quietly and without a "horse" or frame—working completely free-hand from her lap.

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{{cite book|author1=William Arnett|author2=Bernard Herman|title=Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oULezQjE5hwC&pg=PA54|year=2006|publisher=Tinwood Books|isbn=978-0-9719104-7-8|pages=54–}}

{{cite book|author1=John Beardsley|author2=William Arnett|author3=Paul Arnett|author4=Jane Livingston|title=Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o57mBjxyVHEC&pg=PA340|year=2002|publisher=Tinwood Books|isbn=978-0-9719104-0-9|pages=340–}}

{{cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/654084 |title=Bricklayer quilt, ca. 1970: Linda Diane Bennett |work=The MET |access-date=2019-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419161546/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/654084 |archive-date=2019-04-19 |url-status=live }}

{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/an-invaluable-incomplete-show-of-black-southern-art-at-the-met|title=An Invaluable, Incomplete Show of Black Southern Art at the Met|first=Andrea K.|last=Scott|date=18 June 2018|publisher=|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=21 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809040353/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/an-invaluable-incomplete-show-of-black-southern-art-at-the-met|archive-date=9 August 2018|url-status=live}}

{{Cite web|url=http://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/linda-diane-bennett|title=Linda Diane Bennett {{!}} Souls Grown Deep Foundation|website=www.soulsgrowndeep.org|access-date=2019-06-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425224912/http://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/linda-diane-bennett|archive-date=2019-04-25|url-status=live}}

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Category:1955 births

Category:1988 deaths

Category:20th-century American women artists

Category:20th-century American textile artists

Category:Gee's Bend quilters

Category:20th-century African-American artists

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