Pre-Owned Anonymous Was a Woman: A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art and the Women Who Made It (Paperback) 0312134304 9780312134303

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In print since it was first published in 1979 this book is a glorious collection of American folk art by ordinary women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Filled with beautiful four-color reproductions of samplers quilts paintings and needle-pictures along with excerpts from diaries and letters sampler verse books and magazines of the period Anonymous Was a Woman celebrates the daily experiences and inner lives of women who in acts of love and duty created many masterpieces of American folk art. Contributors: Phyllis Rose and Mirra Bank