Crazy Quilt with Animals

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Textiles

1886

Designed and executed by Florence Elizabeth Marvin (American, 1856-1916)
Brooklyn Heights, New York, United States

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Department: Textiles

Artist: Florence Elizabeth Marvin
Title: Crazy Quilt with Animals
Place: Brooklyn Heights (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 1886
Medium: Pieced and embroidered “crazy” quilt; dyed and printed silk, cotton, wool and metallic plain, twill, satin, velvet and patterned weave fabrics and ribbons; silk, cotton and metallic embroidery threads, raised work embroidered appliques, glass beads, metal spangles
Dimensions: 206.7 × 209.2 cm (81 3/8 × 82 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Margaret Cavigga Trust
Reference Number: 2003.294
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Terri Zegart, Quilts: An American Heritage (New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1994), 16 (ill.).
Lorna A. Filippini and Christa C. Mayer Thurman, “Piecework: Conserving the Florence Elizabeth Marvin Quilt,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 31, no. 2 (2005): 54-59, figs. 1-6.

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Exploring Quilts: Art, History and Craftsmanship, Mar. 17–Sept. 12, 2004.
Art Institute of Chicago, Making Memories: Quilts as Souvenirs, Galleries 57-59, Oct. 20, 2017-Apr. 1, 2018.

Fred and Kathy Epstein, Greenwich, CT, by Nov. 18, 2003 [invoice, Nov. 18, 2003; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2003.

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