Roses [graphic] / Gertrude Carrier. [ca. 1950]

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Roses [graphic] / Gertrude Carrier. [ca. 1950]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38583232

Watercolor drawing and calligraphic text, possibly intended as a greeting card; image is of a girl holding a basket of roses, and a border of roses and leaves, in blue, pink, white, gold and green inks; text in red and black with ornamental initial in pink and green.

1 drawing mounted on card stock : watercolor, pen and ink ; image 10 x 8 cm., on sheet 23 x 18 cm.

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Carrier, Gertrude Lueneburg, 1902-1991.

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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...