Tools of her ministry : the art of Sister Gertrude Morgan / William A. Fagaly ; with essays by Jason Berry and Helen M. Shannon ; and a foreword by Gerard C. Wertkin.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Fagaly, William A.

Contributor:

• Morgan, Gertrude, Sister, 1900-1980.
• Berry, Jason, writer of essay.
• Shannon, Helen, writer of essay.
• Wertkin, Gerard C., writer of foreword.
• American Folk Art Museum.
• New Orleans Museum of Art.
• Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.
• Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Morgan, Gertrude, Sister, 1900-1980--Exhibitions.
• Morgan, Gertrude, Sister, 1900-1980.
• Outsider art--United States--Exhibitions.
• Religion in art--Exhibitions.
• Religion in art.
• Outsider art.
• United States.

Genre:

• Exhibition catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

• Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 108 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm

Distribution:

New York : Rizzoli International Publications.

Other Title:

Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan

Place of Publication:

New York : American Folk Art Museum, c2004.

Contents:

• Foreword / Gerard C. Wertkin
• Introduction and Acknowledgments / William A. Fagaly
• Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Gertrude Morgan / William A. Fagaly
• New Orleans: In the Years of Sister Gertrude Morgan / Jason Berry
• But Go Thou Thy Way: Sister Gertrude Morgan and the Visual in African American Culture / Helen M. Shannon
• Chronology / William A. Fagaly.

Notes:

• "Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Tools of her ministry: the art of Sister Gertrude Morgan," presented February 25 to September 26, 2004, at the American Folk Art Museum, New York, November 13, 2004 to January 16, 2005, at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and February 11 to May 28, 2005, at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago"--T.p. verso.
• Dust jacket front cover "Self-Portrait Collage with 1975 Harriet Blum Photograph of Sister Gertrude Morgan in Her Tabernacle Booth at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans Fairgrounds (detail) ..."
• "Note to Reader: Inscriptions have been transcribed exactly as they were written, with no attempt to correct grammar, misspellings, improper capitalization, letter spacing, punctuation, or syntax."
• Lining papers illustrated with Alpha be Poem Rote By Me the lord's wife Prophetess morgan missionary ..."
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-106).

Local Notes:

• Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
• Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

• 0847826236
• 0912161205

OCLC:

53223566