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

1955

Accession Number

151658

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.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Liebes Design, Inc.