Illustrated in Joshua Heller Rare Books Catalogue #37, 2009, Item 15.

Reference note:
Maureen Cummins, Crazy Quilt (Rosendale, 1998). Screen print and letterpress fold book.

Each square of this “quilt” features the words of a woman who received treatment for mental illness. The original works from which many of the quotes were taken, are featured in this exhibition. These include passages from Sane or Insane? by Margaret Starr, as well as passages from Elizabeth Packard and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, among others.

This book was created years before, and entirely independent of, the re-discovery of the name-inscribed quilt also included in this exhibition.

Ref: GB/1509