Pajama bottom

Textiles

1950s

After Al Capp (American, 1909-1979)
Manufactured by Varsity
United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Al Capp
Title: Pajama bottom
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.: Made 1950–1959
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; screen printed
Dimensions: 99.1 × 66 cm (39 × 26 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Cynthia Lee Jenner in honor of her mother, Nadine Newbill Jenner
Reference Number: 2010.449.2

Marshall Field & Company, Chicago, by 1950s [this and the following according to correspondence from donor in curatorial object file]; sold to Nadine Newbill Jenner (died 1997), Kenilworth then Evanston, IL, from 1950’s; with her husband, Albert E. Jenner, Jr. (1907-1988); 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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