About This Artwork
Crazy Quilt with Animals1886
Silk, cotton, wool: plain weaves, some supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet, some printed with gold leaf; twill weave; and satin weaves, some with supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet, some with supplementary patterning wefts, some self-patterned, and some printed with gold leaf; pieced and appliquéd embroidered with silk, silk chenille, cotton, gold-colored-metal-strip, gold- and black-colored-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in back, buttonhole, chain, detached chain, double feather, herringbone, knot, overcast, satin, single satin, sheaf, stem and straight stitches; couching and French knots; embellished with gilt-metal spangles; metal, jet, and glass beads; padded with cotton; backed with silk and cotton, satin weave; machine stitch quilted with silk thread
206.7 x 209.2 cm (81 3/8 x 82 3/8 in.)
Restricted gift of the Margaret Cavigga Trust, 2003.294
Textiles
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, “Exploring Quilts: Art, History and Craftsmanship,” March 17–September 12, 2004
Publication History
Terri Zegart. Quilts: An American Heritage (New York: SMITHMARK Publishers Inc., 1994).
Lorna A. Filippini and Christa C. Mayer Thurman, “Piecework: Conserving the Florence Elizabeth Marvin Quilt,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 31,2 (2005), pp. 54-59, figs. 1-6.