10/02/2026
NOW OPEN—Quilts and Coverlets: American Needlework in White!
This exhibition features whitework bedcoverings in the Museum’s collection, produced at the height of American neoclassicism from the early to mid-1800s. Accompanied by ceramics, printed fabrics, and needlework, these exemplary quilts and coverlets reveal a tightly woven landscape of craft, labor, and authorship.
Quilts and Coverlets: American Needlework in White will be on view October 2 through April 18, 2027.
possibly E. E. P.; Bolster Cover (detail), c.1821; linen with cotton embroidery; not with fringe: 41 × 24 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase 7:1971.2