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1936

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Textile, Untitled Tapestry

This is a Textile. It was designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Museum of Arts and Design as part of A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

It is dated 1936. Its medium is handwoven cotton, silk, and rayon tapestry weave; linen backing fabric . It is a part of the Exhibitions department.


With its abstract geometric pattern and bold palette of corals, yellows, and lilacs, this tapestry shows Liebes’s early passion for modern art, a constant formal inspiration. It may represent an abstraction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, which opened about the same year as this tapestry was made.

It is credited Museum of Arts and Design, New York; gift of Dorothy Liebes Design and Ralph Higbee, through the American Craft Council, 1973.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 273.1 × 78.7 cm (8 ft. 11 1/2 in. × 31 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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