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Tools of her ministry : the art of Sister Gertrude Morgan / William A. Fagaly ; with essays by Jason Berry and Helen M. Shannon ; and a foreword by Gerard C. Wertkin.

Title
Tools of her ministry : the art of Sister Gertrude Morgan / William A. Fagaly ; with essays by Jason Berry and Helen M. Shannon ; and a foreword by Gerard C. Wertkin.
Author
Fagaly, William A.
Publication
New York : American Folk Art Museum ; New York : Rizzoli International Publications, c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Morgan, Gertrude, Sister, 1900-1980
  • Berry, Jason
  • Shannon, Helen.
  • American Folk Art Museum.
  • New Orleans Museum of Art.
  • Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Description
xi, 108 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.
Summary
"Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan is the first monograph on this important African-American self-taught artist. It was written by art historian William A. Fagaly of the New Orleans Museum of Art, who knew Morgan during the last twelve years of her life. Through his stories, recorded here, Sister Gertrude Morgan lives again." "This book is the companion to the national traveling exhibit of the same name, organized by the American Folk Art Museum."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Morgan, Gertrude, Sister, 1900-1980 > Exhibitions
  • Outsider art > United States > Exhibitions
  • Religion in art > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • "Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Tools of her ministry: the art of Sister Gertrude Morgan," presented February 25 to September 26, 2004, at the American Folk Art Museum, New York, November 13, 2004 to January 16, 2005, at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and February 11 to May 28, 2005, at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-106).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Tools of her ministry -- The art of Sister Gertrude Morgan / William A. Fagaly -- New Orleans -- In the years of Sister Gertrude Morgan / Jason Berry -- But go thou thy way -- Sister Gertrude Morgan and the visual in African American culture / Helen M. Shannon -- Chronology / William A. Fagaly.
ISBN
  • 0847826236 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0912161205 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2003022388
OCLC
  • 53223566
  • SCSB-9953974
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library