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Dorothy Wright Liebes

Weaving Sample #541-E

1947

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Dorothy Wright Liebes

Weaving Sample #541-E

1947

Physical Qualities Cotton, 10 3/4 x 8 in. (27.3 x 20.3 cm.)
Credit Line Education Department Fund
Object Number 1948.28j
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 Craft, (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.

Inscribed: Printed by hand at the lower left below the sample: '541-E'; 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.]

Designer

Dorothy Wright Liebes

1896–1971

American, 1897-1972
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