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'Crazy Quilt' with Animals
Florence Elizabeth Marvin · 1886
Provenance
Ownership history
- Fred and Kathy Epstein, Greenwich, CT, by Nov. 18, 2003 [invoice, Nov. 18, 2003; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2003.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Exploring Quilts: Art, History and Craftsmanship, Mar. 17–Sept. 12, 2004, brochure.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Making Memories: Quilts as Souvenirs, Galleries 57-59, Oct. 20, 2017-Apr. 1, 2018.
Literature
Published references
- Terri Zegart, Quilts: An American Heritage (New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1994), 16 (ill.).
- Lorna A. Filippini and Christa C. Mayer Thurman, “Piecework: Conserving the Florence Elizabeth Marvin Quilt,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 31, no. 2 (2005): 54-59, figs. 1-6.
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