Friendship Quilt

1. Ella Maria Deacon (1811-1894), Mount Holly, New Jersey, 1842 [inscribed lower center]; by descent within the family to Betsey Leeds Tait Puth (1929-2024), Winnetka, IL, by Sept. 26, 1978 [according to research on the family conducted by Becca Fenstermaker, Oct. 10, 2023; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• 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, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection, Feb. 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.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Making Memories: Quilts as Souvenirs, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Oct. 20, 2017-Apr. 1, 2018.

• Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 106, 108-9, 148 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 236 (ill.).
• M. Therese Southgate, JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association 282, 7 (Aug. 18, 1999): cover, 614 (ill.)

The Wedding at Cana

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of a Man

Art Institute of Chicago

Flight from Pompeii

Art Institute of Chicago

María Izquierdo

Art Institute of Chicago

Composition with Machine in Motion

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Looking For Fleas

Art Institute of Chicago

Maria Lani

Art Institute of Chicago

OB197

Art Institute of Chicago

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