Coverlet

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

1880

Sarah Scott (American, active c. 1880)
United States, Southern Illinois

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Sarah Scott (Weaver)
Title: Coverlet
Place: Illinois (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 1880
Medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot); two loom widths joined
Dimensions: 213.6 × 167.7 cm (84 × 66 in.); Repeat: 14 × 13.4 cm (5 1/2 × 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Winfield Scott and her daughter, Barbara Elizabeth Hollerorth
Reference Number: 1955.812
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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), 41, cat. 29.
Ellen Eshbach Nordby, “Cover up with the beauty and warmpth of ol’ Illinois,” Chicago Tribune (Feb. 14, 1973): B2 (mentioned, not ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, American Coverlets, July 14–Oct. 14, 1973.

Sarah Scott; by descent within the family to Elizabeth Scott (born Moulton, also Mrs. Winfield Scott, born 1890), Chicago, and her daughter, Barbara Elizabeth Holleroth (born Soctt, 1926-2009), by 1955 [Incoming receipt RX1606, June 3, 1955; copy in curatorial object file; Nordby 1973]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

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