Glee Krueger
Auteur de A Gallery of American Samplers: The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Glee Krueger (far left, with Humphrey and Carol Nichols)
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Œuvres de Glee Krueger
A Gallery of American Samplers: The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection (1978) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions — 79 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Krueger, Glee
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA (birth)
- Études
- University of Wisconsin (BS|Art Education)
- Professions
- museum curator
scholar of textiles and needleworke
embroiderer/embroidery teacher - Relations
- Krueger, Ralph (husband)
- Organisations
- Embroiderers' Guild of America
Art Institute of Chicago
Litchfield Historical Society
Art Institute of Chicago
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 100
- Popularité
- #190,120
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 4
The color photographs are of the highest quality. In many of the samplers, I could identify the stitches and even the errors, especially in failing to cross the same way in the entire piece. And contrary to popular belief, most of these samplers used more than cross stitch. It is amazing to realize that many of these were stitched by very young girls, pieces today that would challenge even the most proficient stitcher.
Kruger includes extensive information in the captions to each illustration (possibly the tags used at the exhibit) as well as a section of additional information on the samplers and the genealogy of the stitchers when known. She also extensively footnotes her introduction and includes a bibliography of many sources known in 1978. (I was at first surprised to see several well known books missing until I realized that they had not yet been published.)
This book will not replace a serious study of samplers, but the photographs are well worth enjoying. And it is the only look at most of Kapnek’s samplers in one source since, when he died, his collection was sold at auction (although a catalog of an auction held on January 19, 1981 at Sotheby’s exists and is cataloged on LibraryThing).… (plus d'informations)