Date
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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
Extended information about this artwork
John Beardsley, William Arnett, Paul Arnett, and Jane Livingstone, Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts (Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002), 18.
Nancy Moffitt, “African-American folk art in new homne: Quilts from rural Alabama acquired by Art Institute” Chicago Sun Times (Mar. 25, 2003): 22.
Christa C. Mayer Thurman and Jessica Batty, “Two-Sided Bedcover,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29, 2 (2003): 30-31 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 265, A Century of Collecting: African American Art in The Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 31, 2003–May 19, 2003.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Exploring Quilts: Art, History and Craftsmanship, Mar. 17–Sept. 12, 2004.
William Arnet, Atlanta; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.
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