Jonathan Holstein, Quilt Papers
Title: Jonathan Holstein, Quilt
Papers
Creator: Holstein,
Jonathan
Dates: 1968-2003
Quantity: 44
boxes (22 linear feet)
Collection Number: MS
0305
Language: English
Restrictions: Selected information in the records for the Kentucky Quilt Project and the Central New York
Survey.
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archives@unl.edu.
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Preferred Citation: Jonathan Holstein, Quilt Papers, (MS 0305). Archives & Special Collections, University of
Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries.
History:
Jonathan Holstein and his partner Gail van der Hoof began collecting quilts in the 1960s. In
1971 they mounted an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York entitled "Abstract Design in American Quilts." This exhibition is generally
acknowledged as the first time quilts were displayed as art objects to the public. The Whitney
exhibition helped to fuel the quilt revival of the 20th and 21st centuries. Holstein donated his
quilt collection and archival materials to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2003. The
quilts are part of the collection of the International Quilt Museum.
Scope and Content:
The collection consists of materials related to Jonathan Holstein's work as a collector and
scholar in the field of quilt studies. The materials cover a time span of over thirty years,
from Holstein's entrance into the quilt field in the late 1960s up until the late 1990s.
Included in the collection are extensive correspondence files, quilt archives kept by Holstein,
files related to exhibitions where Holstein's quilts were featured, and slides of the quilts.
Additionally, the collection contains files related to The Kentucky Quilt Project, the Central
New York Quilt Survey, and The Quilt Journal.
Subjects:
Quilting -- Exhibitions
Quilting -- United States
Quilts -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
Quilts -- Design
Quilts -- History
Quilts -- United States -- Exhibitions
Quilts -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Container List:
Please contact the Archives & Specials Collections for a container list or for more
information on this collection.
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