Gee's Bend Quilts 19 May 22 July 2005 Author:Ameringer Yohe Fine Art Catalogue of 2005 exhibition, profusely illustrated in color and a few historical black and white photographs. Contains short historical sketch, bibliography and webography. — From foreword: Gee's Bend was the home to a remarkable community of women for whom keeping their families warm at night was not incompatible with expressing themselves. The... more » women of Gee's Bend have, over the last several decades, made extraordinary things with an ordinary purpose. And the result is that over the course of decades, dozens of women shared a visual language across generations that has been likened to jazz improvisation, mixing and matching patterns and fabrics to draw us into the sheer beauty of vibrant color, simple geometries, and unexpected informality in a genre associated with prim formulas.« less