Dorothy Wright Liebes
Weaving Sample #32
1947
Scroll
Dorothy Wright Liebes
Weaving Sample #32
1947
Physical Qualities
Chinese ribbon, beads, 7 x 11 in. (17.8 x 27.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Education Department Fund
Object Number
1948.28a
One of fifteen small weaving samples from the studio of Dorothy Liebes. This example consists of variegated stripes using Chinese ribbon in green, magenta, black, and turquoise, and 23 beads.
All samples were 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
Brenda Richardson, et al, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'The Face of America: Modernist Art 1910-1950,' October 9 - December 29, 1996.
Inscribed: Handwritten on the cardboard mount at the lower left of the sample: '#32'; Handwritten on the cardboard mount at the lower right of the sample: 'DOROTHY LIEBES' [Textile removed from original mount due to conservation concerns. Board not acid free. ]
