Bedcover (Cherry Trees and Robins Bride's Quilt)

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Textiles

1820/50

United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Bedcover (Cherry Trees and Robins Bride's 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 1810–1830
Medium: Appliquéd quilt; dyed and undyed plain weave cotton fabrics
Dimensions: 193.2 × 192.7 cm (76 1/8 × 75 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Emma B. Hodge
Reference Number: 1919.546
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Elizabeth Wells Robertson, American Quilts (New York: Studio Publications, 1948), 112 (ill.).
Mildred Davison, American Quilts—1819-1948—From the Museum Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), cat. 2.
Patsy Orlofsky and Myron Orlofsky, Quilts in America (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974), 229, fig. 119.
Mildred Davison, American Quilts from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), plate 2 Iill.).
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 58-59, cat. 18.

Art Institute of Chicago, American Quilts—1819-1948—From the Museum Collection, Apr. 20, 1959-Oct. 19, 1959.
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, America the Beautiful: Textiles from the Permanent Collection, Mar. 6–July 21, 1996.
Art Institute of Chicago, Making Memories: Quilts as Souvenirs, Galleries 57-59, Oct. 20, 2017-Apr. 1, 2018.

Emma B. Hodge (1860-1928; born Emma Blanxius), Chicago, by Apr. 10, 1919 [Day Book 9, 14, 35-36; copy in Institutional Archives]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1919.

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