Bibliography and Exhibitions

MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

BENBERRY, CUESTA.
A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans.
Fayetteville (AK): University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
158 pp., color and b&w illus., appendices, notes, glossary, bibliog., index. Intro. by Raymond Dobard. Covers the collection of 75 African American quilts (1890s-1990s) in the Old Statehouse Museum in Little Rock, AK, the largest such state collection in the U.S. Most artists not included elsewhere. Artists include: Emma Hall, Leonia Taylor, Alice Trammell, Mary Allen Smith Williams, Tillie Rae Williams Hall, Hattie Williams Jones, Willie Mae Williams Smith, Herma Wilson Williams, Dorothy Lambert White, Beulah Smith, and many others. 4to, (11 x 8.6 in.), wraps. First ed.

SAN FRANCISCO (CA). Craft & Folk Art Museum.
Who'd a Thought it: Improvisation in African-American Quiltmaking.
December 31, 1987-February 28, 1988.
88 pp. exhib. cat., 94 illus., including 48 mostly full-page color plates, plus 30 reference illus. including photos of the quiltmakers, biogs., notes, bibliog. Texts by Robert Farris Thompson and Eli Leon. A major contribution to the consideration of traditional heritage vs. personal innovation in the African American quiltmaking tradition. Artists include: Irene Bankhead, Cora Lee Hall Brown, Mary Lue Brown, Monin Brown, Sherry Byrd, Charles Cater, Alberta Collins, Odessa Doby, Willia Ette Graham, Emma Hall, Bettie Phillips, Mattie Pickett, Eula Thomas, Angelia Tobias, Rosie Lee Tompkins, Gussie Wells, Arbie Williams, et al. Traveling exhibition. [Review: Ann Barry, NYT, November 16, 1989.] 4to, wraps. First ed.