Dickey, Anne Tredick, 1917-2009.

Interior designer and curator Anne Tredick Dickey was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Alton and Florence Hollenbeck Tredick. Her father was an investment banker and baseball umpire; her mother a teacher and authority on children's literature who helped establish one of the first elementary school library systems in the United States. She attended Radcliffe College, graduating in 1939 with a degree in architectural history.

She worked in the Office of War Information and as assistant curator in the department of modern architecture and industrial design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (1940-1944). In 1946 she was affiliated with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill where she worked on Lever House. Other projects included the United Nations headquarters (where she was in charge of fabrics, moveable furniture, carpets, etc.), Philadelphia radio station WCAV, and Linoln University Library.

In 1950 she married aeronautical engineer Thomas Atherton Dickey. She began part-time study of architecture at Yale but resigned from the program following the birth of her third child. The Dickeys separated in 1961 and were divorced in 1966. Dickey wintered in Schenectady, New York and summered on Cape Cod, where she died in 2009.

From the description of Papers of Anne Tredick Dickey, 1893- (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 663396187