"Strips" Quilt

Provenance

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.

"Strips" Quilt

Gearldine Westbrook

1980s

Accession Number

160100

Medium

Pieced cotton, wool, polyester, silk, nylon, rayon, acrylic, and cellulose acetate, plain weaves, plain weave derived float weaves, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided pile, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; twill weaves, twill weave with self-patterning ground weft floats; machine single and double knits and machine knot with supplementary cut pile; some printed; pieced; edged with cotton, plain weave, printed; backed with polyester, plain weave; printed

Dimensions

228 × 195.7 cm (89 3/4 × 77 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Robert Allerton Endowment