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BAM ~ Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective  
   
    
   

 
   
    
Eli Leon - 2016       
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Rosie Lee Tompkins articles/mentions

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BAM ~ Rosie Lee Tompkins Retrospective  


       
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Eli Leon ~ African-American Quilt Maven  
   
   
       
           
     
Rosie Lee Tompkins - 1986       
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Eli Leon ~ African-American Quilt Maven

Eli Leon

June 27, 1935
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March 6, 2018

Sherry Ann Byrd -  "M-provisational” quilt     

            ~ 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          

NY Times ~ Whitney Museum, ''Abstract Design in American Quilts''    
NY Times ~ Eli Leon obit       

National Gallery of Art ~ Rosie Lee Tompkins & Eli Leon        

Berkeley Art Museum BAM ~ Rosie Lee Tompkins / MATRIX 173

Oakland Museum of California ~      

        Yo-Yos & Half Squares: Contemporary California Quilts       

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 ~     

        Who'd a thought it : improvisation in African-American quiltmaking    

University of Chicago Press ~ book review       

         Accidentally on Purpose: The Aesthetic Management of Irregularities in African Textiles and African‐American Quilts         

Berkeley Daily Planet ~         
        A Colorful Passion for Unique African American Quilts            

Berkeley Daily Planet ~ book review              

        The Art of Doing it Right by Eli Leon           

Daintytime ~ A Visit With Eli Leon And His Quilts        

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Berkeleyside ~      

         Eli Leon vintage quilt collection for sale          

         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          

SF Gate obit         

       
     

Your Negative Space never was!

Styrous® ~ Tuesday, March 20, 2018        

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Adiós mis amigos . . .

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