American quilts
Subtitle: a handmade legacy : [exhibition catalog]
By: edited by L. Thomas Frye ; guest curators Pat Ferrero, Linda Reuther, and Julie Silber.
Contributors: Frye, L. Thomas.; Oakland Museum.
Publisher: Oakland Museum
Published: 1981
Place of publication: [Oakland, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Quilts, American -- Exhibitions; Quilts -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Quilts -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Notes: Issued on the occasion of an exhibition, held Jan. 13-Apr. 1, 1981, at the Oakland Museum.
"Quilts in the exhibition": p. 78-86.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by L. Thomas Frye; title: Preface, the collections of the Oakland Museum / by Inez Brooks-Myers; title: A legacy of hearts and hands / by Pat Ferrero, Linda Reuther, and Julie Silber; title: Textiles as history / by Rachel Maines; title: The 19th-century diarist and her quilts / by Elaine Hedges; title: Portraits, seven contemporary quiltmakers / by Debra Heimerdinger; title: Film as art, quilts in women's lives / by Stephanie Krebs.