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Jean Robertson interview with Nancy Crow

Title: Jean Robertson interview with Nancy Crow

An interview of Nancy Crow conducted by Jean Robertson, Aug.17, 1988, as a part of Robertson's research for the book, ancy Crow: Quilts and Influences" by Nancy Crow and Jean Robertson, Collector Books, Dec. 1989. Crow speaks about her childhood and early artistic aspirations; her dissatisfaction with her first quilts in the early 1970s; traditional quiltmaking; her work in tapestry weaving; meeting Francoise Barnes and Virginia Randles and learning to quilt; the difference between the weaving and quilting process; working in series; her interest in Mexican folk art and African American quilts; living on an isolated farm and drawing inspiration from nature; her use of titles, colors, patterns, scale, and fabrics; the importance of her training in ceramics; and she compares her work to quilts by Michael James.

OralHistoryResource: 14 p.

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Oral history interview with Nancy Crow

Title: Oral history interview with Nancy Crow

An interview of Nancy Crow conducted 2002 December 18, by Jean Robertson, for the Archives of American Art, at her home and studio, in Baltimore, Ohio, as part of the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording, master: 3 sound discs (3 hr.) : digitial ; 2 5/8 in.Sound recording, duplicate: 3 sound cassettes.Transcript: 50 p.

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