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Evening Dress, ca. 1924
This is a Evening Dress. It was retailed by Metz & Co. and B. Altman & Co..
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Rhode Island School of Design as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
This dress exhibits the increasingly international reach of the fashion industry in the 1920s. Made with silk designed by Liberty of London, it was retailed by forward-thinking department stores B. Altman & Co. in New York and Metz & Co. in Amsterdam. Its complicated pieced construction creates a cubist collage.
It is credited Lent by Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum Collection, Museum Collection, S84.123A.
- Dress And Jacket With Box And Lid, Delphos
- silk, glass beads.
- Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper Hewitt....
- 2016-28-1-a,b
- Sample (England)
- H x W: 29.2 x 44.8 cm (11 1/2 x 17 5/8 in.).
- 1962-141-13-b
- Commemorative Handkerchief
- silk.
- 1953-120-1
Our curators have highlighted 3 objects that are related to this one.
- Evening Dress
- pearl, floss, metallic thread, silk, velvet.
- Lent by Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Mrs. Fritz Kreisler, 1960,....
- 76.2016.4
![A painting of a convivial, crowded scene of diverse couples dancing, musicians playing, and seated people drinking. In the center of the canvas is a dark-skinned man in a brown suit, back facing the viewer. His head is in profile with his left arm raised and he is dancing with a beige-skinned woman whose smiling face is in full view. The woman holds a cigarette behind the man’s back. The angle of her arm points to a nearby dancing couple, a pale-skinned woman and a tan-skinned man. The pale-skinned woman wears a bright red, short dress with white tights and a long necklace of small pearls. She dances with the tan-skinned man dressed in a black jacket and mustard-colored trousers, whose back is to the viewer. In the bottom left corner seated musicians of mixed skin tones, wearing black, play a mandolin, clarinet, trumpet and trombone, their instruments extend outwards between the dancing couples. In the background groups of people dressed in bright colors sit at white, round tables drinking wine and cocktails. The figures in the piece are stylized, with smiling expressions and a sense of animation. The overall scene has a flat perspective, such that the figures fill the frame completely, are overlapped, and some are cut off by the canvas, giving the sense of a crowded, joyful scene. In the bottom right corner, the artist’s signature, the location of the piece, and the date [A.J. Motley Jr. Paris 1929] are inscribed in black paint.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/325265_ec56d76c9a96179d_n.jpg "Blues")
- Blues
- oil on canvas.
- Collection of Mara Motley, MD, and Valerie Gerrard Browne.
- 57.2016.1
- Square
- silk.
- 1962-119-1
Its dimensions are
Center back L: 109.2 cm (43 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
