"Ocean Wave" Quilt Bedcover

Textiles

c. 1883

Made by Frances Brooks Wyld
American, died 1958
United States, Illinois, Chicago

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Frances Brooks Wyld
Title: "Ocean Wave" Quilt Bedcover
Place: United States (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.: 1873–1893
Medium: Cotton, plain weaves; printed; cotton, twill weaves; pieced; edged and backed with cotton, plain weave; quilted
Dimensions: 173.7 × 145.7 cm (68 3/8 × 57 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Cynthia Lee Jenner in honor of her mother, Nadine Newbill Jenner
Reference Number: 2010.444
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The artist, Frances Brooks Wyld (died 1958), Chicago, IL, from c. 1883 [this and the following according to correspondence and documentation provided by the donor dated Spring 2009 in curatorial object file]; by descent to her granddaughter, Violet Wyld (1906-1986), Kenilworth, IL; given to Nadine Newbill Jenner (died 1997), Kenilworth then Evanston, IL, from mid-1980s; by decent to her daughter, Cynthia Lee Jenner, New York and Evanston, IL, from 1997; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2010.

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