Bedcover (Log Cabin Quilt)

Textiles

1875/1900

United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Bedcover (Log Cabin Quilt)
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 1875–1900
Medium: Silk, pieced plain weaves and cut solit velvet; backed with silk, plain weave; edged with linen, bobbin straight lace
Dimensions: 185 × 175.7 cm (72 7/8 × 69 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Dewey, Jr.
Reference Number: 1951.48
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Art Institute of Chicago, Quilts from the Permanent Collection, Aug. 19–Nov. 5, 1978; Nov. 8, 1978–Jan. 21, 1979.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, The American Bed and Its Coverings, June 6-Sept. 22, 1986.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, America the Beautiful: Textiles from the Permanent Collection, Mar. 6–Jul. 21, 1996.

Erna Goodman, Chicago (born Sawyer, also Mrs. William O. Goodman, 1859-1943); by descent to her granddaughter, Mrs. Marjorie Dewey (born Goodman, also Mrs. Charles S. Dewey, Jr.; later Mrs. Robert D. Graff, 1914-2009), Chicago, then Far Hills, NJ, 1943 [on loan to the Art Insitute of Chicago from Dec. 3, 1943, incoming receipt R8043, loan number 1074.1943]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.

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