Who'd a thought it : improvisation in African-American quiltmaking : December 31, 1987 to February 28, 1988 / Eli Leon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leon, Eli.

Contributor:

Thompson, Robert Farris, writer of preface.

San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, issuing body.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American quilts--Themes, motives--Exhibitions.

African American quilts.

African American quilts--Themes, motives.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

87 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, California : San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, 1987.

Contents:

Foreword / J. Weldon Smith

Preface. From the First to the Final Thunder: African-American Quilts, Monuments of Cultural Assertion / Robert Farris Thompson

Who'd a Thought It: Improvisation in African-American Quiltmaking / Eli Leon.

Notes:

"This catalog was published in conjunction with the exhibition ... on view at the San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum from December 31, 1987 to February 28, 1988."

"Cover: Framed Improvisational Black (detail). Pieced by Rose Lee Tompkins, Richmond, California, 1985. Quilted by Willia Ette Graham, Oakland, California, 1985."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-87).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has certain titles highlighted in the bibliography.

OCLC:

17591575