"Quilt Show" Quilt

Provenance

The artist (died 1957); by descent to her daughter, Prudence Fuchsmann (1918-2007; born Prudence Maxine Stenge; also Mrs. Murray M. Fuchsmann), Chicago, from 1957 [incoming receipt RX20907, Aug. 5, 1995; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995.

"Quilt Show" Quilt

Bertha Stenge

1943

Accession Number

143689

Medium

Appliquéd and pieced quilt; dyed and printed plain and patterned weave cotton fabrics; cotton embroidery threads

Dimensions

241.2 × 197 cm (95 × 77 1/2 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Prudence Fuchsmann