Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Umberger, Leslie
2. Stebich, Stephanie A.
3. Hammack, Rosemary
4. Smithsonian American Art Museum, publisher, host institution

Description

1. 159 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. "Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women explores the design innovation and quiltmaking skills of Amish women from communities across the United States. The catalogue celebrates the Faith and Stephen Brown collection of Amish Quilts at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Co-curator Leslie Umberger's introduction situates Amish quilts within the context of quiltmaking in America as well as within the American art story. In the catalogue's main essay, historian Janneken Smucker explains what unites and distinguishes the Amish and their arts and describes the sometimes-fine line between personal artistry and communal practice. Her insightful text illuminates the ways in which Amish quilt patterns overlap and diverge from community to community, at times adhering to strict values of modesty and conformity, and at others testing boundaries with innovative design. Through a series of entries on individual quilts, Smucker considers "visual clues" for reading and interpreting Amish quilts, which are often more complex and curious than they might first appear"--

Alternative title

1. Quilts of Amish women

Subject

1. Brown, Faith A. > Art collections > Exhibitions
2. Brown, Stephen > Art collections > Exhibitions
3. Brown, Faith A
4. Smithsonian American Art Museum > Exhibitions
5. Smithsonian American Art Museum
6. Amish quilts > Exhibitions
7. Quilts > Private collections > Washington (D.C.) > Exhibitions
8. Amish quilts
9. Art > Private collections
10. Quilts > Private collections
11. Quilts
12. Washington (D.C.)

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Director's foreword / Stephanie Stebich -- Collector's note / Faith and Stephen Brown -- Who are the Amish? / Janneken Smucker -- Unpacking paradox : quilts and American art / Leslie Umberger -- "Mine was a little different" : Amish quilts and cultural expression / Janneken Smucker -- The quilts / Janneken Smucker -- Glossary.

Call number

1. JQG 25-20

Note

1. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, from March 28, 2024, to August 26, 2024.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157).

Author

1. Smucker, Janneken, author.

Title

1. Pattern and paradox : the quilts of Amish women / Janneken Smucker ; introduction by Leslie Umberger ; collectors' note by Faith and Stephen Brown ; foreword by Stephanie Stebich ; editor, Rosemary Hammack.

Publisher

1. Washington, DC : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; Lewes, UK : D. Giles Limited, [2024]

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157).

Added author

1. Umberger, Leslie, writer of introduction.
2. Stebich, Stephanie A., writer of foreword.
3. Hammack, Rosemary, editor.
4. Smithsonian American Art Museum, publisher, host institution.

LCCN

1. 2023027389

Other standard identifier

1. 20530555

ISBN

1. 9781913875572 trade paperback
2. 1913875571 trade paperback

Research call number

1. JQG 25-20