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Dorothy Wright Liebes

Weaving Sample #B-13-A

1947

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Dorothy Wright Liebes

Weaving Sample #B-13-A

1947

Physical Qualities Cotton, silk, 5 5/8 x 5 in. (14.3 x 12.7 cm.)
Credit Line Education Department Fund
Object Number 1948.28l
One of fifteen small weaving samples from the studio of Dorothy Liebes.Green and black. This example consists of a chevron pattern woven in cotton and raw silk in green and black. 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 the 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: 'B-13-A'; 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.]

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Dorothy Wright Liebes

1896–1971

American, 1897-1972
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