Coverlet

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

1845

Abram William Van Doren (American, 1808–1884)
United States, Michigan, Oakland County, Avon

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Department: Textiles

Artist: Abram William Van Doren (Weaver)
Title: Coverlet
Place: Michigan (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 1845
Medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined
Inscriptions: Inscription: Sybil Duncan A W Van Doren Weaver Avon 1845 Michigan
Dimensions: 225.7 × 195.2 cm (88 × 76 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus
Reference Number: 1911.15
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“Collection of American Coverlets,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 4, 4 (Apr. 1911): 62 (discussed; not illustrated).
Mildred Davison, Early American Hand-Woven Coverlets in the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago: A Picture Book (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), 12 (ill.).
Christa C. Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 122, plate 94.
Mildred Davison and Christa C. Mayer-Thurman, Coverlets: A Handbook on the Collection of Woven Coverlets in The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1973), 212-3.

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
Art Institute of Chicago, American Coverlets, July 14–Oct. 14, 1973.

Frances Smalley Babbitt (1847–1929), Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, MI [ex-collection noted in acquisition valuation dated 2/25/1911 in curatorial file; “The Florence Babbitt Collection” reprinted in Ypsilanti Gleanings, Ypsilanti Historical Society (Summer 2010); this and the following according to Davison and Mayer-Thurman 1973, p. 212]; sold to Frank W. Gunsaulus (1856-1921), Chicago, by 1911 [Ledger Book 1900–1913 in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.

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