Description: First book to explore schoolgirl needlework of the Connecticut River Valley
Review Quotes:
"The Hubers have brought together an exquisite collection of schoolgirl embroideries and watercolors, enhancing our understanding of early female education and regional artistic style. Their introduction and gloriously illustrated catalogue provides significant historic, stylistic, and family context. Susan Schoelwer's insightful essay on the Patten School in Hartford reveals its family background, duration, and wide influence."--Gloria Seaman Allen, author of A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738-1860
"The Hubers have brought together an exquisite collection of schoolgirl embroideries and watercolors, enhancing our understanding of early female education and regional artistic style. Their introduction and gloriously illustrated catalogue provides significant historic, stylistic, and family context. Susan Schoelwer's insightful essay on the Patten School in Hartford reveals its family background, duration, and wide influence."--Gloria Seaman Allen, author of A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738-1860
"With Needle and Brush presents a stunning group of schoolgirl artwork from the Connecticut River Valley. The sheer beauty of the needlework is underpinned by new and important research, and I am particularly delighted to see connections made between needlework and watercolors. This book is a very important contribution to the field."--Linda Eaton, director of collections and senior curator of textiles, Winterthur Museum