"Pinwheel" Quilt

Textiles

c. 1975

Allie Pettway
American, 1916-2010
United States, Alabama, Gee’s Bend

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Allie Pettway
Title: "Pinwheel" Quilt
Place: Alabama (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 1965–1985
Medium: Double sided, cotton and polyester, plain weaves, some printed, some fulled; pieced; polyester batting, quilted with cotton and polyester thread
Dimensions: 204.5 × 222.3 cm (80 1/2 × 87 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Robert Allerton Endowment
Reference Number: 2002.382

Beardsley, John, et al. Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts. Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002. p. 273.
Thurman, Christa C. Mayer and Batty, Jessica. “Two-Sided Bedcover,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29, 2 (2003), pp. 30-31 (illus.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 265, A Century of Collecting: African American Art in The Art Institute of Chicago, January 31, 2003–May 19, 2003
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Exploring Quilts: Art, History and Craftsmanship, March 17–September 12, 2004

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