Improvisational Quilts: Renwick Gallery of The National Museum of American Art
Nancy Crow
1995
Art QuiltsThe catalog from Crow's 1995 solo exhibition at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery — 47 full-page plates of quilts pieced entirely without templates, working improvisationally by color and instinct rather than a planned layout. Crow remains a touchstone specifically for working art-quilters (Quilters Hall of Fame) even though this title and several of her others are long out of print and actively sought secondhand. A foundational, largely uncelebrated-outside-the-niche name in improv/art-quilt lineage.
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