Art Institute of Chicago
"Housetop"-nine block "Half-Log Cabin" Variation
Jessie T. Pettway · About 1975
Provenance
Ownership history
- William Arnet, The Tinwood Alliance, Atlanta, by Sept. 16. 2002 [incoming receipt RX23794, Sept. 16, 2002; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 265, A Century of Collecting: African American Art in The Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 31, 2003–May 19, 2003.
Literature
Published references
- John Beardsley, William Arnett, Paul Arnett, and Jane Livingstone, Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts (Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002), 18 (ill.).
- John Beardsley, et al. The Quilts of Gee's Bend (Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002), 16.
- Nancy Moffitt, "African-American Folk Art in New home: Quilts from rural Alabama Acquired by Art Institute" Chicago Sun Times (Mar. 25, 2003): 22 (ill.).
- Melinda Watt, "Jessie T. Pettway, Housetop Half-Log Cabin Quilt" in Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago, James Rondeau, ed. (Yale University Press, 2026), 225, 265, cat. 172 (ill.).
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