"Ocean Wave" Quilt Bedcover

Provenance

The artist, Frances Brooks Wyld (died 1958), Chicago, IL, from c. 1883 [this and the following according to correspondence and documentation provided by the donor dated Spring 2009 in curatorial object file]; by descent to her granddaughter, Violet Wyld (1906-1986), Kenilworth, IL; given to Nadine Newbill Jenner (died 1997), Kenilworth then Evanston, IL, from mid-1980s; by decent to her daughter, Cynthia Lee Jenner, New York and Evanston, IL, from 1997; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2010.

"Ocean Wave" Quilt Bedcover

Frances Brooks Wyld

c. 1883

Accession Number

201796

Medium

Cotton, plain weaves; printed; cotton, twill weaves; pieced; edged and backed with cotton, plain weave; quilted

Dimensions

173.7 × 145.7 cm (68 3/8 × 57 3/8 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Cynthia Lee Jenner in honor of her mother, Nadine Newbill Jenner