Sample (Handbag Material)

Textiles

1955

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Dorothy Liebes (Designer)
Title: Sample (Handbag Material)
Place: New York City (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1955
Medium: Cellulose film, silk, viscose-rayon, cotton, and metal foil laminated in cellulose acetate film, plain weave self-patterned by ground weft floats
Dimensions: 18.1 × 19.6 cm (7 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Liebes Design, Inc.
Reference Number: 1972.1158d

The artist (died 1972), San Francisco then New York; Dorothy Liebes Design, New York, from 1972 [distributed through Ralph Higbee, Director]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1972.

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