Dobeckmun Metallic Stripe (Curtain Fabric)

Textiles

1948

Status: On loan to Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee for Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980
Department: Textiles

Artist: Dorothy Liebes
Title: Dobeckmun Metallic Stripe (Curtain Fabric)
Place: United States (Object made in)
Date: Made 1948
Medium: Wool, cotton, rayon, silk, metal foil laminated in cellulose acetate film, and metallic strip, twill weave
Dimensions: 291.8 × 128.5 cm (114 7/8 × 50 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Liebes Design, Inc.
Reference Number: 1972.1142

Bobbye Tigerman and Monica Obniski, Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890-1980 (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books·Prestel, 2020), p. 216, cat. 89.

The artist (died 1972), San Francisco then New York; Dorothy Liebes Design, New York, from 1972 [following the artist’s death, Ralph Higbee (Director of Dorothy Liebes Design) distributed her work to museums and educational institutions]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1972.

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