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Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt, SIGNED, Alabama Quilts, Hardcover

Signed on 3 pages by Florine Smith, (born in 1948) one of the featured Gee’s Bend quilters: on the title page and on 2 additional pages next to photos of her quilts.

William Arnett, author

Publisher: Tinwood Books

Large Format: Coffee Table Display Book 13.25" x 11.75"

The Hardcover Book and dust jacket are in Like New condition! Book will be most carefully packed and promptly shipped via USPS.

In 2002, Gee’s Bend burst into international prominence through the success of Tinwood’s Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition and book, which revealed an important and previously invisible art tradition from the African American South. Critics and popular audiences alike marveled at these quilts that combined the best of contemporary design with a deeply rooted ethnic heritage and compelling human stories about the women. Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt is a major book and a famous museum exhibition that premiere at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), in June 2006. The exhibition travelled through seven American museums through 2008.

The book's 224 pages and 330 reproduction color illustrations & insightful text bring home the exciting experience to readers while displaying all the cultural heritage and craftsmanship that have gone into these remarkable quilts. A remarkable book in Like New condition, no previous owner’s name or other writing. A book any collector of Alabama history & culture would cherish to have in their collection.

Gee’s Bend, officially Boykin, is an isolated, rural community in the Southern Black Belt part of Alabama with a rich history tied to cotton plantations, enslaved people, and the Civil Rights movement. Named after Joseph Gee, a North Carolina planter who established a plantation in the 1800s, the area was later owned by Mark Pettway, who brought 100 enslaved people to Gee’s Bend. After the Civil War, many formerly enslaved people remained on the land, often facing hardship and economic hardship, and eventually became known for their unique quiltmaking tradition.

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