Dobeckmun Metallic Stripe (Curtain Fabric)

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1948

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Department: Textiles

Artist: Dorothy Liebes
Title: Dobeckmun Metallic Stripe (Curtain Fabric)
Place: United States (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 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, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art with New York: DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2020), 216, cat. 89.

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980, Oct. 14, 2021–Jan. 9, 2022; Oslo, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, Mar. 17–Aug. 7, 2022; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 9, 2022–Feb. 5, 2023; Milwaukee Art Museum, Mar. 24–July 23, 2023 (Los Angeles and Milwaukee only).

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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