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1941

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2023

2025

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Photograph, Dorothy Liebes with Thomas J. Watson, Sr. at the Opening of the 10th Ceramic National at the Syracuse Art Museum, Holding a Jar by Brazilian Ceramist Enclides Fonseca

This is a Photograph. It was photographed by William H. Allen. It is dated 1941. Its medium is reproduction. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.


Dorothy Liebes and IBM president Thomas J. Watson Sr. examine a jar made by Brazilian studio potter Enclides Fonseca at the preview for Contemporary Ceramics of the Western Hemisphere at the Syracuse Museum of Fine Art, New York. The exhibition was sponsored by IBM.

It is credited Everson Museum of Art, IBM Archives.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

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