Artist

Mende

132130

Works

mende

Style

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.

Selected works

132130 pieces

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