Object Timeline

  • We acquired this object.

1946

  • Work on this object began.

2023

2025

  • You found it!

Letter, Letter with Sketch from Dorothy Liebes to Ruth MacKinlay

This is a Letter. It was written by Dorothy Wright Liebes and made for (as the client) Matson Lines, Inc. and interior designer: Raymond Loewy. It is dated 1946. Its medium is pen and ink on printed paper. It is a part of the department.

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

Its dimensions are

H x W: 26.6 × 18.5 cm (10 1/2 × 7 5/16 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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