Bedcover
Sisters of the Honorable Amos Patterson · 1793-1810
Provenance
Ownership history
- Made by the sisters of the Patterson family, Union, Broome County, New York [according to letter from John S. Patterson, Aug. 17, 1929; in curatorial object file]. George S. McKearin (1874-1985), 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, America the Beautiful: Textiles from the Permanent Collection, Mar. 6–Jul. 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.
Literature
Published references
- Florence Peto, "Some Early American Crewelwork" Antiques (May 1951): 389, fig. 5 (ill.).
- Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 159, 161, pl. 126 (ill.).
- Virginia Churchill Bath, Needlework in America: History, Designs, and Techniques (The Viking Press, 1979), 111 (ill.).
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