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Orr, Emily M.

Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary American Design

American design 1850 to the present; fashion and textile history 1850 to the present; consumer culture

Background And Education

Awards And Honors

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Article

  • Blog Posting

  • Book

    • Orr, Emily M. 2019. Designing the Department Store: Display and Retail at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. London, England: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. 2019
  • Chapter

    • Orr, Emily M. 2023. "Compatible in Spirit: Textiles, Architecture, and Eclectic Modernism in 1930’s London." In Textile in Architecture From the Middle Ages to Modernism. Ekici, Didem, Blessing, Patricia, and Baudez, Basile, editors. 101–117. Routledge. 2023
    • Orr, Emily M. 2023. "Modern Weaving's Global Ambassador." In A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes. Brown, Susan J. and Griffith Winton, Alexa, editors. 122–135. New York, New York, and New Haven, Connecticut: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Yale University Press. 2023
    • Orr, Emily M. 2021. "Art and ‘Architecture Afloat’: Orient Line and the Avant-Garde." In Appropriated Interiors. Schneiderman, Deborah, Lasc, Anca, and Tehve, Karin, editors. 154–167. Routledge. 2021
    • Orr, Emily M. 2020. "Equipping and Exhibiting the Modern Interior." In E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising. Condell, Caitlin and Orr, Emily M., editors. 78–89. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Rizzoli Electa. 2020
    • Orr, Emily M. 2019. "Spirit of the New." In Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection. Pope, Victoria, editor. 113–113. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books. 2019
    • Orr, Emily M. 2017. "A Thousand Hands: The Art of the Department Store Display." In The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Coffin, Sarah D. and Harrison, Stephen, editors. 238–266. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2017
    • Orr, Emily M. 2017. "Modern Notes of Energetic America: 1920s Textiles." In The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Coffin, Sarah D. and Harrison, Stephen, editors. 267–325. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2017
    • Orr, Emily M. 2017. "The American Woman as Fashion Muse." In The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Coffin, Sarah D. and Harrison, Stephen, editors. 140–198. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2017
    • Orr, Emily M. 2017. "The Machine Age: Balancing Art and Industry." In The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Coffin, Sarah D. and Harrison, Stephen, editors. 199–211. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2017
    • Orr, Emily. 2015. "Body Doubles: A History of the Mannequin." In Ralph Pucci: Art of the Mannequin. Orr, Emily, Gifford, Barbara, and Yuzna, Jake, editors. 35–55. Seattle: Marquand Books/Museum of Arts and Design. 2015
  • Review

  • Thesis

Editor Of

  • Book

    • Condell, Caitlin and Orr, Emily M., editors. 2020. E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Rizzoli Electa. 2020

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