A Colorful Past: Decorative Arts of Georgia

A Colorful Past: Decorative Arts of GeorgiaThis volume covers a range of topics, from painted, vernacular nineteenth century furniture and the history of painted surfaces in Georgia to color innovations in folk pottery and the conservation of ornamental painting and stained glass in historic Georgia homes. Heavily illustrated, A Colorful Past adds to the history of the state through a mix of research, scholarship, and personal narrative, as in Diane Barretts article on the tradition of African

Essays discuss a wide range of topics including the American West

The book includes many color illustrations

Archibald Motley

Elizabeth Catlett

all of which are introduced with an essay from a scholar in the field

This catalogue by Perri Lee Roberts accompanies the exhibition of the same name

"Materiality in the Gullah Geechee Culture: The Kitchen in the Heart of the Story

Authored by Perri Lee Roberts

including not only works included in the Georgia Museum of Art's exhibition but also works that appeared in Cercle et Carré's original 1930 exhibition in Paris and that were published in its journal

as well as a foreword by museum director William Underwood Eiland and acknowledgments and a focus on a recent acqusition by Dale L

her letters from France to her family between 1928 and 1930

This catalogue of the Georgia Museum of Arts permanent collection is both a tribute to Alfred Heber Holbrook