Come Walk with Me

The Art of Dorris Curtis

This book includes 103 images of Curtis’s artwork, each with an extended caption, as well as an introduction by Robert Cochran which places Curtis’s art into the larger context of both Arkansas art and American folk art as a whole. (more …)

2004, 249 pages, 103 color plates
9” X 12” $39.95, cloth
1-55728-764-3

A Piece of My Soul
Quilts by Black Arkansans

Cuesta Benberry
with an Introduction by Raymond Dobard

A stunning showcase of the single largest collection in any state in the union of quilts made by black artisans. (more …)

"Benberry clearly articulates the story behind each quilt and quiltmaker . . . in the finest Benberry tradition. We are all invited to see the quilts for the material culture that they are and to be inspired."

—Raymond Dobard, author of
Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad

2000, 176 pages, 94 color illustrations
$34.95 cloth
1-55728-620-5

Arkansas Made
A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas, 1819–1870, Volume II

Swannee Bennett and William B. Worthen

Volume II covers the introduction and spread of painting and photography, illustrated with approximately 200 photographs. (Volume I is out of print.)

1993 Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History

1991, 229 pages
$55.00 cloth (s), 1-55728-183-1
$40.00 paper (s), 1-55728-184-X

The Art of I. Denton

Text by Ivan Denton

"This is the work of a master artist, a carver not only of figures but of moods, capturing the flavor of the wilderness. A sensitive salute to a modern artist of the Old West."

—The Book Reader

1988, 104 pages
$39.95 cloth (s), 1-55728-009-6
$22.50 paper (s), 1-55728-010-X

Arkansas Coloring Book

Brenda Zodrow

Fifty-two illustrations and informative captions tell the story of the state for children, through history, agriculture, politics, transportation, and
biographies.

1988
56 pages
$14.95 paper
ISBN 978-1-55728-179-X