
Art Institute of Chicago
"Amish Diamond in a Square" Quilt
Unattributed · c. 1925
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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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