Anonymous Was a Woman: A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art and the Women Who Made It

Anonymous Was a Woman: A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art and the Women Who Made It by Bank, Mirra. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780312134303.

In print since it was first published in 1979, this book is a glorious collection of American folk art by "ordinary" women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Filled with beautiful four-color reproductions of samplers, quilts, paintings, and needle-pictures along with excerpts from diaries and letters, sampler verse, books, and magazines of the period, Anonymous Was a Woman celebrates the daily experiences and inner lives of women who, in acts of love and duty, created many masterpieces of American folk art.