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1946

  • Work on this object began.

2023

2025

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Annotated Color Palette for SS Lurline First Class Lounge Stage Curtain, 1946

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 and graphite 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: 21.5 × 46.5 cm (8 7/16 × 18 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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