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1962

  • Work on this object began.

1972

  • Work on this object ended.

2023

2025

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Sketch, Dorothy Liebes Studio Entry, New York City

This is a Sketch. It is dated ca. 1967. Its medium is gouache, watercolor, and color pencil on board. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.


Liebes’s New York studio was both a workspace and a showroom. This sketch shows the entryway being used to promote the latest designs for one of her major clients, Bigelow Carpets. Emma Amos’s original designs for Garden Path and Queues des Fleurs are framed on the wall with the finished rugs on the floor, and Liebes’s popular toss pillows dot the bench. The lacquer red door, sunny yellow paint, and Alexander Calder mobile were signature Liebes touches.

It is credited Dorothy Liebes Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 21.6 × 27.9 cm (8 1/2 in. × 11 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

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