Quilt Show

Textiles

1943

Bertha Stenge (American, 1891–1957)
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Bertha Stenge
Title: Quilt Show
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 1943
Medium: Appliquéd and pieced quilt; dyed and printed plain and patterned weave cotton fabrics; cotton embroidery threads
Inscriptions: Inscription (stitched in lower left corner): Bertha Stenge 1943; (label written in ink on reverse): QUILT SHOW original design Bertha Stenge 2508 N. Bernard St. Chicago 47, Illinois
Dimensions: 241.2 × 197 cm (95 × 77 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Prudence Fuchsmann
Reference Number: 1995.392

Patsy Orlofsky and Myron Orlofky, Quilts in America (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974), 29, pl. 11 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Gift, Bequest and Purchase: A Selection of Textile Acquisitions from 1993–1997, Apr. 22–July 26, 1998.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, An International Collection of Appliquéd, Embroidered and Pieced Bedcoverings, Feb. 28–May 28, 2001.
Art Institute of Chicago, Making Memories: Quilts as Souvenirs, Galleries 57-59, Oct. 20, 2017-Apr. 1, 2018.

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

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