Amish Diamond in a Square

Textiles

c. 1925

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Amish Diamond in a Square
Place: Pennsylvania (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 1915–1935
Medium: Wool, plain weaves; pieced; backed with cotton, warp chevron twill weave; cotton batting; quilted with cotton thread
Dimensions: 198.5 × 197.7 cm (78 1/8 × 77 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Robert Allerton and The Christa C. Mayer Thurman Textile Endowments
Reference Number: 2001.456

Mary Leman Austin, The Twentieth Century’s Best American Quilts: Celebrating 100 Years of the Art of Quiltmaking (Golden, Colorado: Primedia Special Interest Publications, 1999).
Robert Bishop and Elizabeth Safanda, A Gallery of Amish Quilts (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co. Inc., 1976).
Lacy Folmar Bullard, Quilts: From Colonial to Contemporary (Illinois: Publications International, Ltd., 1992).
Sharon L. Eisenstat and Elizabeth V. Warren, Glorious American Quilts (New York: Penguin Studio, 1996).
Eve Wheatcroft Granick, “Country Quilt Making” Magazine of Antiques 138 (Oct. 1990): 771.
Eve Wheatcroft Granick, The Amish Quilt. (Intercourse, Pennsylvania: Good Books, 1989).
Jonathan Holstein, The Pieced Quilt, an American Design Tradition (CT: New York Graphic Society, Ltd., 1973).
Kenneth Pelman and Rachel Pelman, The World of Amish Quilts (Pennsylvania: Good Books, 1984).
Jennifer Regan, American Quilts (New York: Gallery Books, 1989).
Anita Schorsch, Plain and Fancy Country Quilts of the Pennsylvania German (New York: Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., 1992).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Exploring Quilts: Art, History and Craftsmanship, Mar. 17–Sept. 12, 2004.

Shelly and Kenny Zegart, Louisville, KY, by Nov. 12, 2001 [invoice, Nov. 12, 2001; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.

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