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Bed Rug
Hannah Johnson · 1796
Provenance
Ownership history
- Hannah Johnson (1770-1848), New London County, CT [this and the following according to letter from John S. Patterson, Aug. 17, 1929; copy in curatorial object file]; given to her niece; by descent to her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Sterling, Canajoharie, NY; sold to Miss Frances J. Eggleston. George S. McKearins, Hoosick Falls, NY [incoming receipt R8068, Jan. 20, 1944]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1944.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
- 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, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection, Feb. 17–May 2, 1993.
- 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, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Fabric of a New Nation: American Needlework and Textiles, 1776-1840, Dec. 16, 2011–June 3, 2012, extended: July 12-Nov. 11, 2012.
Literature
Published references
- Alice Winchester, introduction, “American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 74, 1 (July 1958): cover (ill.).
- Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 160, pl. 127.
- Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 107, 148 (ill.).
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