Going West!

Quilts and Community

• Author(s): Sandi Fox,
• Publisher: Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Pages: 127
• ISBN_10: 1904832458
  ISBN_13: 9781904832454
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Antiques & Collectibles / Subjects & Themes / Americana , Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General , Crafts & Hobbies / Quilts & Quilting , History / General , History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) ,

Description:... "Going West! Quilts and Community, produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery, presents more than fifty quilts, brought to or made in Nebraska in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Embellished with flowers, stars, wagon wheels, dazzling mosaics, even signatures, the quilts reveal the extraordinary creativity of the individuals who made them. Roderick Kiracofe gives an overview of quiltmaking traditions, while Sandi Fox provides commentaries on individual pieces, using diaries, journal entries, and newspaper accounts to contextualize a quilt's owner or maker, or the period in which the quilt was created. Together, the essays reveal the hardship and risk overlanders undertook to leave the familiar and forge new communities out West, and the apparent joy and pride quiltmakers brought to this time-honored craft."--BOOK JACKET.