
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Coverlet
David D. Haring · 1834
Provenance
Ownership history
- Frances Smalley Babbitt (1847–1929), Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, MI [note in curatorial file dated 5/9/1984]; sold to Frank W. Gunsaulus (1856-1921), Chicago, by 1911 [Ledger Book 1900–1913 in curatorial file; Davison and Mayer-Thurman 1973, 147]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, American Coverlets, July 14–Oct. 14, 1973.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Coverlets from the Permanent Collection, Apr. 4- July 5 1981.
- 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.
Literature
Published references
- "Collection of American Coverlets," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 4, 4 (Apr. 1911): 62 (discussed; not illustrated).
- Bessie Bennett, "Some American Coverlets; "Gunsaulus Collection," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 23, 8 (Nov. 1929): 128.
- Mildred Davison, Early American Hand-Woven Coverlets in the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago: A Picture Book (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), 7 (ill.).
- Mildred Davison and Christa C. Mayer-Thurman, Coverlets: A Handbook on the Collection of Woven Coverlets in The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1973), 146-7.
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