"Cherry Tree and Robin" Quilt

1. Emma B. Hodge (1860-1928; born Emma Blanxius), Chicago, by Apr. 10, 1919 [Day Book 9, 14, 35-36, Apr. 10, 1919; copy in Institutional Archives]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1919.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• 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.
• 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–July 21, 1996.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Making Memories: Quilts as Souvenirs, Galleries 57-59, Oct. 20, 2017-Apr. 1, 2018.

• "Old-Time Patchwork and Appliqued Quilts," The Ladies' Home Journal (Jan. 1, 1922): 31 [stichwork accentuated in photograph] (ill.).
• Elizabeth Wells Robertson, American Quilts (New York: Studio Publications, 1948), 112 (ill.).
• Mildred Davison, American Quilts-1819-1948-From the Museum Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), cat. 2.
• Patsy Orlofsky and Myron Orlofsky, Quilts in America (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974), 229, fig. 119.
• Mildred Davison, American Quilts from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), plate 2 Iill.).
• Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 58-59, cat. 18 (ill.).
• Barbara Brackman, "Four Block Cherry Trees," A Cloud of Quilt Patterns, Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns (Feb. 20, 2017) https://encyclopediaquiltpatterns.blogspot.com/2017/02/four-block-cherry-trees.html