Some
of our favorite Bettye Williams paintings are "companion" pieces.
These are partner paintings - Abe and Eddie above, Bessie and Ben below.
Each set of paintings shares a panoramic view of the cotton field and
the evening sky - with one half of the tree in each painting.
Scratching
out a living in the cotton fields, women, men and children worked along
side each other. "Images of cotton pickers depict a way of life that
was harsh. These folk, my mother being one of them, deserve a revered
place in history for the years spent." BWms
Bettye
signs her work "BWms" rather than spellingout her full name
out of a sense of modesty.
