The ladies' shop [graphic] [ca. 1950]

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The ladies' shop [graphic] [ca. 1950]

Calligraphic signboard of a girl with a basket of roses, a large gothic "F" and the text: The Ladies' Shop invites you to come up and haave a cup of tea. Sixth Floor.

1 drawing mounted on poster board : watercolor, pen and ink ; 26 x 18 cm. on board 28 x 20 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7405947

Newberry Library

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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...

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