Pocket by Sally Standish
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Pocket

Sally Standish · c. 1799

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Gretchen Sharp and Kathy Schoemer, by 1981 [Woodward and Greenstein 1981, 84; documentation from American Antiques and Art in curatorial object file]. Frank & Barbara Pollack, American Antiques and Art, Highland Park, IL; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Fabric of a New Nation: American Needlework and Textiles, 1776-1840 Dec. 16, 2011–June 3, 2012, Extended: July 12-Nov. 11, 2012.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, PHOTOGRAPHY + FOLK ART: Looking for America in the 1930s, Sept. 21, 2019-Jan. 20, 2020.

Literature

Published references

  • Thomas K. Woodward and Blanche Greenstein, Crib Quilts and Other Small Wonders (E.P. Dutton, 1981), 84, fig. 164 (ill.).
  • Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), 37, cat. 7 (ill.).

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