Sample (Handbag Material)

Provenance

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.

Sample (Handbag Material)

Dorothy Liebes

1956

Accession Number

151660

Medium

Nylon polyamide (three different forms), cotton, linen, cellulose film, and metal foil laminated in cellulose acetate film

Dimensions

15.1 × 16.5 cm (6 × 6 1/2 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Liebes Design, Inc.