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Children at Play (Furnishing Fabric)
Merrimack Manufacturing Company · 1886/90
Provenance
Ownership history
- Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland (1881-1978; born Belle McCullough, also Belle Borland), Chicago, by Oct. 1956 [Incoming permanent receipt RX2021 dated Oct. 17, 1956 in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, American Textiles, May 12–October 31, 1971
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Printed Fabrics from the Permanent Collection, August 8, 1981–January 31, 1982
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, A Selection of Commemorative Printed Fabrics from the Permanent Collection, August 15–November 15, 1987
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection, February 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–Jul. 21, 1996.
Literature
Published references
- Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 214, no. 169.
- Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), pp. 113 (illus.), 148.
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