Coverlet

Provenance

Harriet B. Carpenter (also Mrs. Frank D. Carpenter, died Sept. 19, 1949), Chicago, then Miami, FL [this and the following according to letter from F.D. Carpenter to Mildred Davison, Nov. 9 and Nov. 21, 1949; in curatorial object file]; by descent to her husband, Frank D. Carpenter, Miami, FL, Sept. 19, 1949 [Incoming receipt R9821, Dec. 19, 1949; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

Coverlet

Dennis Cosley

1847

Accession Number

90255

Medium

Cotton and wool, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts (Beiderwand); woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; full loom width; seamless; fringed

Dimensions

235.2 × 202.9 cm (92 1/2 × 80 in.); Repeat: 41.9 × 35.6 cm (16 1/4 × 14 in.)

Classification

weaving - coverlet

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Frank D. Carpenter