American material culture and the Texas experience
Subtitle: the David B. Warren Symposium.
Contributors: Bayou Bend Collection.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Publisher: Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780890901687
Subjects: Decorative arts -- United States -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: "The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, established the biennial David B. Warren Symposium, "American Material Culture and the Texas Experience," to honor Bayou Bend's founding director emeritus. This volume presents five papers from the inaugural symposium, placing the pre-1900 material culture of Texas, the lower South, and the Southwest within a national and international context"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Publication based on papers delivered at the inaugural David B. Warren Symposium, "American Culture and the Texas Experience," presented by Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Feb. 9-10, 2007.

"Volume 1."
Table of contents: title: Directors' foreword / Peter C. Marzio and Bonnie A. Campbell; title: Introduction. A gift of love : Miss Ima Hogg's quest to bring Americana to Texas / David B. Warren; title: Essays. American material culture : artists, artisans, scholars, and a world of things / Margaretta M. Lovell; title: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a lot of luggage : Spanish colonial material culture in the U.S. Southwest / Kelly Donahue Wallace; title: Sweet potatoes and Cicero : furniture and furniture-making in the German settlements of Texas / Lonn Taylor; title: Clay connections : a thousand-mile journey from South Carolina to Texas / Jill Beute Koverman; title: Contributors; title: Photograph credits.