David B. Warren Symposium conference proceedings ; Volume 5.
Title:
Creators and consumers : women and material culture and visual art in 19th-century Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest / presented by Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140). "This publication based on papers delivered at the fifth David B. Warren Symposium, "Creators and Consumers: Women and Material Culture and Visual Art in 19th-Century Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest," presented by Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on October 23-24, 2015."
Contents:
Foreword / Bonnie A. Campbell -- Carving out creative enterprise as a woman in Texas, 1836-1900 / Paula Marks -- A luxury purchase in troublesome times : Harriet Flower Mathews's antebellum parlor / Mel Buchanan -- The material culture of freedom : African American women and the southern free Black home after the Civil War / Whitney Nell Stewart -- Mary Bella Prague Brice : "woman of marked literary and artistic attainments" in nineteenth-century New Orleans / Katie Burlison -- Quilts, the democratic art in three nineteenth-century examples from Texas and the Lower South / Katherine J. Adams -- Women's experiences of making and wearing sunbonnets in nineteenth-century Texas / Rebecca Jumper Matheson -- "Weaving beautiful garlands of immortelles" : Mattanna Fairchild and decorative memorial works / Lauren Clark -- Contributors -- Photograph credits.
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