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  • We acquired this object.

1946

  • Work on this object began.

2023

2025

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Drawing, Presentation Drawing of SS Lurline First Class Lounge Stage Curtain

This is a Drawing. It was designed 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 gouache on paperboard. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.

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

Its dimensions are

H x W: 25.3 × 33.6 cm (9 15/16 × 13 1/4 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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