"Amish Diamond in a Square" Quilt by an unidentified artist
Art Institute of Chicago

"Amish Diamond in a Square" Quilt

Unattributed · c. 1925

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Shelly Zegart (1941-2025; born Rochelle Weiss) and Kenny Zegart (1940-2025), Louisville, KY, by 1999 [Austin, ed. 1999, 33; invoice, Nov. 12, 2001; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Exploring Quilts: Art, History and Craftsmanship, Mar. 17–Sept. 12, 2004.

Literature

Published references

  • Jonathan Holstein, The Pieced Quilt, an American Design Tradition (CT: New York Graphic Society, Ltd., 1973).
  • Robert Bishop and Elizabeth Safanda, A Gallery of Amish Quilts (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co. Inc., 1976).
  • Kenneth Pelman and Rachel Pelman, The World of Amish Quilts (Pennsylvania: Good Books, 1984).
  • Jennifer Regan, American Quilts (New York: Gallery Books, 1989).
  • Eve Wheatcroft Granick, The Amish Quilt. (Intercourse, Pennsylvania: Good Books, 1989).
  • Eve Wheatcroft Granick, "Country Quilt Making" Magazine of Antiques 138 (Oct. 1990): 771.
  • Anita Schorsch, Plain and Fancy Country Quilts of the Pennsylvania German (New York: Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., 1992).
  • Lacy Folmar Bullard, Quilts: From Colonial to Contemporary (Illinois: Publications International, Ltd., 1992).
  • Sharon L. Eisenstat and Elizabeth V. Warren, Glorious American Quilts (New York: Penguin Studio, 1996).
  • Mary Leman Austin, ed., The Twentieth Century's Best American Quilts: Celebrating 100 Years of the Art of Quiltmaking (Golden, Colorado: Primedia Special Interest Publications, 1999), 33 (ill.).

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