"Feather-Edged Star" Quilt

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Textiles

1845

Annie Maria Henkle (American, 1827-1911)
Shenandoah, Virginia, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Annie Maria Miller
Title: "Feather-Edged Star" Quilt
Place: Virginia (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, plain weave; pieced with cotton, plain weave, printed; quilted, pattern outlined in pencil; backed with cotton, plain weave
Inscriptions: Inscription (left side): A. M. Miller, 45
Dimensions: 298 × 303.4 cm (117 1/4 × 119 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift from the family of Orvis T. Henkle
Reference Number: 1959.84
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Mildred Davison, American Quilts-1819-1948-From the Museum Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), cat. 16.
Mildred Davison, American Quilts from the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1966), pl. 15.

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.

The artist, Annie Maria Henkel (1827-1911; born Annie Maria Miller; later Mrs. Solon Paul Charles Henkle), Shenandoah, VA; by descent in the family to Orvis Thaddeus Henkle (1871-1956), OH then Chicago; with C. W. Henkel (1901-1982), Chicago [incoming receipt RX2724, Jan. 16, 1959; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959.

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