Anonymous Was a Woman: A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art and the Women Who Made It

by Mirra Bank

Other authorsPhyllis Rose (Preface)
Paperback, 1995

Status

Available

Tags

American folk art, quilting, samplers, 18th century, 19th century

Genres

Publication

St. Martin's Griffin (1979), Paperback, 128 pages

Description

Text and illustrations describe the samplers, paintings, quilts, needlepictures, and other handiwork of 18th and 19th-century American women.

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Textile art and craft, with perspective description, short "quotes" from girl-journals, lady-diaries and woman-letters, and numerous pictures of the traditional American decorative handwork of the 18th and 19th century: Samplers, quilts, crewel embroidery, bed hangings, needle-pictures, some
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 watercolors. Potent and poetic masterpieces.
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Subjects

Folk art United States History
Folk art United States History 18th century
Women artists United States Biography

Language

English

Original publication date

1979

Physical description

128 p.; 10.03 inches

ISBN

0312134304 / 9780312134303

Local notes

Art Theory/History Criticism

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