An American Sampler: Folk Art From The Shelburne Museum
Softcover
1988 · Washington
by National Gallery of Art
Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1988. Softcover. VG. Blue & color illus. wraps. 211 pp. many bw, 100+ color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1988-1990 series of exhibitions of folk art. With essays by Benjamin L. Mason (A "Simple" Vision), David Park Curry (Rose-colored Glasses: Looking for "Good Design" in American Folk Art [and] Time Line), Jane C. Nylander (Flowers from the Needle). Catalogue essays written by Celia Oliver and Robert Shaw. Subject Headings include: Trade Signs; Carvings; Decoys; Scrimshaw; Trade Figures; Carousel Animals; Weather Vanes & Whirligigs; Quilts & Counterpanes; Bed Rugs & Coverlets; Rugs. Also includes a section on Conservation Notes. Lovely illustrations. (Inventory #: 7023)