"Victory Quilt"

Textiles

1942

Bertha Stenge (American, 1891–1957)
Quilted by Maud Sielbeck
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Bertha Stenge
Title: "Victory Quilt"
Place: Chicago (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1942
Medium: Appliquéd and pieced quilt with raised areas (trapunto); dyed and undyed, cotton plain weave fabrics; cotton thread embroidery
Inscriptions: Inscription (label on reverse): 19. 'Victory Quilt' - Applique and trapunto 1942 Maker: Bertha Stenge Owner: Prudence Fuchsmann 90" x 90"
Dimensions: 240 × 204.7 cm (94 1/2 × 80 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation and the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation; Christa C. Mayer Thurman Textile Endowment
Reference Number: 1995.391

Woman’s Day Magazine (Mar. 1943)
Betty Taylor, “The Woman who Made “The Bible” Quilt,” Chicago Tribune (Apr. 5, 1971): B2, 45-46.
“Bertha Stenge,” Quilters Journal, 2, issue 2 (June 1979).
Joyce R. Gross, “Four Twentieth Century Quiltmakers,” Uncoverings [Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group], vol. 1, edited by Sally Garoutte (1980): 34-36.
Robin Albright, “Bertha’s Best,” Illinois Times (July 10, 1997).

New York, Madison Square Garden, Woman’s Day National Needlework Contest [New York World’s Fair], 1942.
Art Institute of Chicago, Quilts and Quilting by Mrs. Bertha Stenge, June 24–Sept. 26, 1943.

The artist (died 1957); by descent to her daughter, Prudence Fuchsmann (1918-2007; born Prudence Maxine Stenge; also Mrs. Murray M. Fuchsmann), Chicago, from 1957 [incoming receipt RX20907, Aug. 5, 1995; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995.

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