From Paris to Providence
Fashion, Art, and the Tirocchi Dressmakers' Shop, 1915-1947
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10042451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rainey Tisdale (Rhode Island School of Design, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1020 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2700399 |
| OpenAlex | W2316785914 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Temporary exhibition, Jan. 12–April 8, 2001. 3,400 sq. ft. Susan Hay, curator and project director; Madelyn Shaw and Pamela Parmal, associate curators; Sarah Buie, designer; Carole Villucci, educator. Internet: objects from the exhibition, essays, resources for teachers, databases of clients and employees, correspondence, records of transactions, and measurements, A&L Tirocchi Dressmakers' Project (Sept. 20, 2001). In 1989 the textile department at the art museum of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) was contacted by Louis J. Cella Jr., a local doctor. The donation that unfolded from this initial query was to textile history what the recent discovery of Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex is to paleontology: an intellectual windfall whose rarity is surpassed only by its serendipity. During the first half of the twentieth century, Cella's mother, Laura, and aunt Anna ran a dressmaker's shop out of their home at 514 Broadway in Providence. In rooms on the second
Art · Art history · Aunt · Exhibition · Library science · Piano · Serendipity · Special collections · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Computer Science · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · History
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2002 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |