Dorothy Wright Liebes
Weaving Sample #1564
1947
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Dorothy Wright Liebes
Weaving Sample #1564
1947
Physical Qualities
Various yarns, flat and wrapped metallic threads., 7 1/2 x 10 5/8 in. (19.1 x 27 cm.)
Credit Line
Education Department Fund
Object Number
1948.28d
One of fifteen small weaving samples from the studio of Dorothy Liebes. This example is a combination of twill and sateen weave with a rough texture and all-over pattern. Tan and subdued greens predominate with flat and wrapped metallic threads throughout.
The sample was originally attached to a white cardboard mount with the number of the design and name of the designer written by hand. (Removed for conservation reasons but saved in Textile Department.)
The Baltimore Museum of Art (Junior Museum), by purchase 1948; from the designer, Dorothy W. Liebes, San Francisco
Peter Hastings Falk (ed.), Who Was Who in American Art, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985, p. 372, s.v. 'Liebes, Dorothy Wright.' Lois and William Katzenbach, The Practical Book of American Wallpaper, Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1951, p. 47, p. 139. Mary Schoeser and Celia Rufey, English and American Textiles from 1790 to the Present, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1989, p. 224, fig. 39. Sigrid Wortmann Weltge, Women's Work: Textile Art from the Bauhaus, San Francisco: Chronicle Books/London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1993, pp. 148- 150, figs. 114-118, pp. 188-189, p. 203. Francis V. O'Conner (ed.), The New Deal Art Projects: An Anthology of Memoirs, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972, p. 257. Dorothy B. Gilbert (ed.), Who's Who in American Art, Vol. IV, Washington, D.C.: The American Federation of Arts, 1947, p. 286, s.v. 'Liebes, Dorothy Wright'; N.Y.: R.R. Bowker Co., 1959, p. 336, s.v. 'Liebes, Dorothy'; 1966, p. 288, s.v. 'Liebes, Dorothy'; 1970, p. 259, s.v. 'Liebes, Dorothy.' Ed Rossbach, 'The Glitter and Glamour of Dorothy Liebes,' American Craft, (December 1982/January 1983), pp. 8-12. Ed Rossbach, 'Fiber in the Forties,' American Crafts, (October/November 1982), pp. 15-19.
Regina Lee Blaszczyk, "Designing Synthetics, Promoting Brands: Dorothy Liebes, DuPont Fibres and Post-war American Interiors, Journal of Design History, Vol. 21, No, 1,
pp. 75-95.
Regina Lee Blaszczyk, "Designing Synthetics, Promoting Brands: Dorothy Liebes, DuPont Fibres and Post-war American Interiors, Journal of Design History, Vol. 21, No, 1,
pp. 75-95.
Inscribed: Printed by hand at the lower left below the sample: '1564'; Printed by hand at the lower right below the sample: 'DOROTHY LIEBES' [Textile removed from original mount due to conservation concerns. Board not acid free.]
