Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Title:

The quilts of Gee's Bend / John Beardsley [and three others] ; introduction by Alvia Wardlaw ; foreword by Peter Marzio.

Edition:

1st edition

Publisher, Date:

Atlanta, GA : Tinwood Books in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2002.

Description:

190 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm

Summary:

Relates the lives of the women of Gee's Bend, Alabama, who for more than 150 years have made quilts reflecting their history and daily lives. Having worked in isolation for generations and continuing to inhabit the remote plantation land their parents once slaved, they have received unexpected attention from the artistic world.

Subjects:

Arnett, William -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.

Tinwood Alliance -- Exhibitions.

African American quilts -- Alabama -- Gee's Bend -- Exhibitions.

African American quiltmakers -- Alabama -- Gee's Bend -- Exhibitions.

Quilts -- Alabama -- Gee's Bend -- History -- Exhibitions.

African American women -- Alabama -- Gee's Bend -- Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Other Author:

Beardsley, John.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Notes:

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition The Quilts of Gee's Bend organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston"--Title page verso.

"The quilts reproduced in this book are from the William Arnett Collection of the Tinwood Alliance"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-183) and index.

Contents:

The quilts of Gee's Bend / Alvia Wardlaw -- River Island / John Beardsley -- On the map / William Arnett Paul Arnett -- Reflections on the art of Gee's Bend / Jane Livingston -- Work clothes -- My way -- Annie Mae Young -- Housetop -- Family -- Triangles -- Patterns -- Sears corduroy.

Web Site:

Publisher description

LCCN:

2006355008

ISBN:

0965376648

9780965376648

Other Number:

51172928

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

138902

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

746.46 Quilts o