Exhibition

Silhouettes of Style: Fashions from the Martha McCaskey Selhorst Collection 
 Higbee Gallery, June 17, 1998 - June 4, 2000
Anne Bissonnette, Curator
  


Afternoon dress 
American, 1898 
Black silk with white dots trimmed with ruffles, lace and rhinestones 
Kent State University Museum 
Gift of Martha McCaskey Selhorst
KSUM 1996.058.0334ab 

Day dress 
American, 1902 
White and black silk print with cords and button trim 
Kent State University Museum 
Gift of Martha McCaskey Selhorst
KSUM 1996.058.0341ab

Evening dress 
American, ca. 1905 
Black silk taffeta with allover sequin embroidery in floral scroll pattern lined in purple silk
Kent State University Museum 
Gift of Martha McCaskey Selhorst
KSUM 1996.058.0333ab 

A Bedoin Chief 
John Singer Sargent American
late 19th-early 20th century 
Oil on canvas of Ahmed Bahri, houseman in Sargent's home posing as a Bedouin 
Kent State University Museum 
The Shannon Rodgers Collection
KSUM 1983.4.707

 

 

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