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Photograph, Photograph Used in an Advertisement for the Dorothy Liebes for Carol Stanley Collection
This is a Photograph. It was textile artist: Dorothy Wright Liebes and produced by H.S. Herzman and published by The New Yorker Magazine. It is dated 1948. Its medium is reproduction. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.
Liebes’s reputation as a craftsperson was often leveraged in advertising, even if the products on offer were machine woven. This photograph, used in a print ad that ran in The New Yorker magazine, was shot in Liebes’s studio. The model poses in front of Liebes’s distinctive Ram’s Head loom, seated on a Liebes floor cushion.
It is credited Dorothy Liebes Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.