Beardsley, John, William Arnett, Jane Livingston, Alvia Wardlaw (Introduction), and Peter Marzio (Foreword). Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts (Atlanta; Houston: Tinwood Books; The Museum of Fine Arts, 2002). English, a Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, HC, 4to or fo, 13 1/2" x 11 1/2," 432 pp., including illustrations, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index of Quiltmakers, and General Index. ISBN: 0971910405 Fine black cloth-covered boards. Covers pristine and intact, binding tight, sharp tips. Fine black paper dust jacket with red lettering on front panel and spine. Dust jacket has light rubbing and slight wear to extremities, else pristine and intact, not price-clipped. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Pages pristine and intact. Replete with illustrations in black-and-white and color; 546 illustrations in total, 488 of which are in full color. Beautiful exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of a show, The Quilts of Gee's Bend, which was held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from September 8-November 10, 2002 and the Whitney Museum of American Art from November 27, 2002-March 2, 2003. The exhibition featured the quilts made by the women of Gee's Bend, a small African-American community in rural Alabama.
