"Log Cabin" Quilt Block

CC0 Public Domain Designation

1875-1900

Probably Pennsylvania, United States

Status: On View, Gallery 58
Department: Textiles

Title: "Log Cabin" Quilt Block
Place: Pennsylvania (Object Probably 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 1875–1900
Medium: Silk, plain, twill, and satin weaves, some with supplementary patterning warps or wefts, some self-patterned, and some with cut solid velvet; pieced
Dimensions: 44.7 × 46 cm (17 5/8 × 18 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Martin A. Ryerson
Reference Number: 1943.763
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Valerie Cassel Oliver, “The Geometry of Loss,” in On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, eds. Isaac Facio, Nneka Kai, L Vinebaum, and Anne Wilson, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 34, fig. 5 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Quilts from the Permanent Collection, Aug. 19–Nov. 5, 1978; and Nov. 8, 1978–Jan. 21, 1979.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, The American Bed and Its Coverings, Nov. 21, 1990–Mar. 31, 1991.
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, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, Sept. 6, 2025–Mar. 15, 2026, cat.

Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, by 1932; to his estate, from Aug. 11, 1932 [incoming receipt R7970, July 1, 1942; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.

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