Mende’s work is defined by its mende sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

Blanket (Kpokpo)
Mende Sierra Leone

Woman Mending
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)

Mended Petal
Yoko Ono Japanese, born 1933

Helmet Mask (Sowei)
Sherbro or Mende Sierra Leone Coastal West Africa

Couscous Platter
Aït Bouaddou or Aït Mendes Bezzit or Merkala, Kabylie region, Algeria Northern Africa and the Sahel

Old Woman Mending at the Window
Max Liebermann German, 1847-1935

Mending
Anders Zorn Swedish, 1860-1920

Singing and Mending
Robert Gwathmey American, 1903-1988

Man Mending Scythe
Charles François Daubigny French, 1817-1878

Helmet Mask (Ndoli Jowei)
Attributed to Mustafa Ado Dassama of Ngolahum (Kenema District) Mende Sierra Leone Coastal West Africa

Mended Skylight II
Ellsworth Kelly American, 1923-2015

Mended Skylight III
Ellsworth Kelly American, 1923-2015

Mended Skylight IV
Ellsworth Kelly American, 1923-2015

Americane v Leningrade: Mess Mend (An American in Leningrad: Mass Mend)
Otakar Mrkvicka (Czech, 1898–1957) Karel Teige (Czech, 1900–1951)

“I don't give a damn about your Miss Sand who prevents women from mending pants and darning socks! ... We must re-establish divorce or suppress those authors!,” plate 6 from Moeurs Conjugales
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879

A Sign of the Times-Mended Stockings, Stenographer, San Francisco
Dorothea Lange American, 1895-1965

Mending Nets, Portsoy
James McBey American, born Scotland, 1883-1959

Mending
Anders Zorn Swedish, 1860-1920