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Zahara Schatz
Lampcirca 1949

Not on view
Table lamp with scalloped butter-yellow fabric shade, thick clear glass body containing gold-toned biomorphic line drawings and bubbles, seated in a curved medium-brown wooden base
Artist or Maker
Zahara Schatz
Palestine (now Israel), active Jerusalem, United States, New York, and California, Berkeley, 1916-1999
Title
Lamp
Date Made
circa 1949
Medium
Acrylic, copper, steel, brass, oak, fiberglass
Dimensions
17 x 24 x 9 in. (43.18 x 60.96 x 22.86 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Allison and Larry Berg
Accession Number
M.2011.80
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
Selected Exhibition History
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012

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