"Album of Inventors" Quilt

Textiles

1933

North Carolina, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: "Album of Inventors" Quilt
Place: North Carolina (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 1933
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; pieced; embroidered with cotton in bullion and stem stitches; edged and backed with cotton, plain weave; quilted with cotton thread
Inscriptions: embroiderd in blue on central white field: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 1933 / ANDREW JACKSON 1833; embroidered in blue on diamonds around perimeter (clockwise): T. BLANCHARD/ ELIAS HOWE/ W.C. ROENTGEN / A.G. BELL / W. and O. WRIGHT / G. MARCONI / B.C. TILGHMAN / C.L. SHOLES / O. MERGENTHALER / JOHN. ERICSSON / CHAS. GOODYEAR / (Mme) M. CURIE / (Sir) H. BESSEMER / F. Von ZEPPELIN / G. WESTINGHOUSE / SAMUEL MORSE / THOMAS EDISON / C. McCORMICK
Dimensions: 226.3 × 186.1 cm (89 1/8 × 73 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Shelly Zegart
Reference Number: 2001.469

Merikay Waldvogel and Barbara Brackman, Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 World’s Fair, exh. cat. (Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 1993), 79-81 (ill.).

Paducah, KY, Shelly Zegart’s Antique Quilt Exhibit, 1991 as Roosevelt and Jackson Commemorative.
Knoxville, TX, The Knoxville Museum of Art and Smith-Kramer, Inc., Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 World’s Fair, Palm Beach, FL, The Society of the Four Arts, Jan. 7-Feb. 7, 1994; Lexington, MA, Museum of Our National Heritage, Mar. 20-July 17, 1994; Midland, MI, Midland Center for the Arts, Aug. 7–Sept. 25, 1994; Logan, KS, Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum, Oct. 16–Dec. 4, 1994; Chicago Cultural Center, Dec. 18, 1994–Apr. 23, 1995; Grosse Pointe Shores, MI, Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, May 10-July 2, 1995; Los Angeles, CA, Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, July 23-Sept. 10, 1995; Janesville, WI, Rock County Historical Society, Oct. 1-Nov. 19, 1995; Neenah, WI, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Dec. 10, 1995-Jan. 28, 1996; Lexington, KY, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Feb. 18-Apr. 8, 1996; Knoxville, TN, Knoxville Museum of Art, May 3-July 24, 1996.
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 1993 [Waldvogel and Brackman 1993, 80; incoming receipt RX23406, Sept. 7, 2001; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.

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