Eli Leon
June 27, 1935
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March 6, 2018
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March 6, 2018
~ Collector's Weekly
What
would jazz look like if it had a physical presence? According to Sherry
Ann Byrd, a celebrated quilt maker, it might look something like the
hand-made “M-provisational” quilts produced by six generations of her
family, who descended from a former slave named Edward “Ned” Titus in Freestone County, Texas.
Eli Leon ~ Who'd a Thought It
catalogue of African-American quilts
San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, 1987
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Images for Eli Leon, quilts
National Gallery of Art ~ Rosie Lee Tompkins & Eli Leon
Berkeley Art Museum BAM ~ Rosie Lee Tompkins / MATRIX 173
Oakland Museum of California ~
The Plaid Portico ~ YoYos and Half Squares exhibition review
Collector's Weekly ~ The Beautiful Chaos of Improvisational Quilts
The Berkeley Planet ~ Colorful Passion for African American Quilts
Smithsonian Libraries ~
University of Chicago Press ~ book review
Berkeley Daily Planet ~ book review
Daintytime ~ A Visit With Eli Leon And His Quilts
~ Part 1
~ Part 2
Berkeleyside ~
Eli Leon ~ A lifetime of quirky collections
Quirky Berkeley ~ Eli Leon – A Life of Making Art and Collecting
Rosie Lee Tompkins
Washington Post ~ Rosie Lee Tompkins obit
Quirky Berkeley ~ Eli Leon – A Life of Making Art and Collecting
Rosie Lee Tompkins
Washington Post ~ Rosie Lee Tompkins obit
Your Negative Space never was!
Styrous® ~ Tuesday, March 20, 2018
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