Exhibitions
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A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes
July 7, 2023 – February 4, 2024Cooper Hewitt Design MuseumThis exhibition explores the full scope of Dorothy Liebes' contributions as a designer, collaborator, mentor, public figure, and tireless promoter of American modernism.
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Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum
February 4, 2022 – October 23, 2022Cooper Hewitt Design MuseumThis exhibition—through archival photography and documents, personal drawings and correspondence, news clippings and ephemera—chronicles the colorful lives and contributions of the dynamic sisters.
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Sophia Crownfield: Drawn from Nature
February 4, 2022 – July 31, 2022Cooper Hewitt Design MuseumFrom the 1890s to the 1920s, Sophia Crownfield designed prints for some of the most prominent silk and wallpaper manufacturers in the United States.
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Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Prints that Made the Fashion Brand
June 10, 2021 – January 2, 2022Cooper Hewitt Design MuseumThe exhibition features more than 35 original watercolor and gouache design drawings by Zuzek to reveal Zuzek’s artistic contribution to the iconic Pulitzer style.
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Contemporary Muslim Fashions
February 28, 2020 – July 11, 2021Cooper Hewitt Design MuseumThis is the first major museum exhibition to explore the complex and diverse nature of Muslim dress codes worldwide.
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Hewitt Sisters Collect
December 12, 2014 – October 29, 2017Cooper Hewitt Design MuseumThe remarkable story of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt, who in 1897 established a museum within Cooper Union.
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Elaine Lustig Cohen: Modern Graphic Designer
February 7, 1995 – May 23, 1995Cooper Hewitt Design MuseumVisit books, stationery, signage, and other works that reveal Cohen's importance in the evolution of design.