Object Timeline

1937

  • Work on this object began.

1947

  • Work on this object ended.

1960

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Textile Design: Butterflies

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Dorothy Pease and made for Perspectives, Inc.. It is dated ca. 1942 and we acquired it in 1960. Its medium is brush and watercolor, pen and black ink on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Its dimensions are

30.1 × 25.4 cm (11 7/8 × 10 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black ink, verso (4 identical impressions): PERSPECTIVES INC. / INDUSTRIAL DESIGN WORKSHOP / 34 E. 51st St., NEW YORK 17 PL.9-7145; in red and black ink, verso, lower left corner: DESIGN NO. 002752

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Butterflies; Designed by Dorothy Pease (American, active mid-20th century); Made for Perspectives, Inc.; FRANCE & U.S.A.; brush and watercolor, pen and black ink on paper; 30.1 × 25.4 cm (11 7/8 × 10 in.) ; 1960-135-1

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