Carrier, Gertrude Lueneburg, 1902-1991.

Dates:
Birth 1902
Death 1991

Biographical notes:

Chicago calligrapher, illuminator and designer who worked for the Scriptorium of Coella Lindsay Ricketts and later for the studio of Milan Bulovic, but was for most of her career a free-lancer.

Carrier studied at the School of the Art Institute with Ernst Detterer, graduating in 1923; among her most important commissions were altar cards for Samuel Cardinal Stritch; from the 1970's onward she was a senior member of the Chicago Calligraphy Collective.

From the description of Gertrude Lueneburg Carrier papers, 1921-1991. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 38418677

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Subjects:

  • Calligraphers
  • Calligraphy
  • Calligraphy
  • Design
  • Designer
  • Signs and signboards

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Places:

  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)