Amish abstractions
Subtitle: quilts from the collection of Faith and Stephen Brown
By: essays by Janneken Smucker, Robert Shaw, Joe Cunningham.
Contributors: Shaw, Robert, 1951-; Cunningham, Joe.; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications; In collaboration with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780764951657
Subjects: Brown, Faith A. -- Art collections -- Exhibitions; Brown, Stephen C. -- Art collections -- Exhibitions; Quilts, Amish -- Exhibitions; Quilts -- Private collections -- United States -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Other titles: Quilts from the collection of Faith and Stephen Brown
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Nov. 14, 2009-May 16, 2010.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / John E. Buchanan Jr.; title: Collectors' note / Faith and Stephen Brown; title: Quilts in Amish contexts : traditions and adaptations / Janneken Smucker; title: Fundamentally abstract : the aesthetic achievement of Amish quilts and quiltmakers / Robert Shaw; title: It's all in the details : the making of Amish quilts / Joe Cunningham; title: Plates; title: List of works illustrated.