Dancer

Irene Emery

American textile anthropologist, museum curator, scholar, art historian (1900–1981)

Born 1900 · Grand RapidsDied 1981United States
Irene Emery
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Irene Emery was an American dancer, born in 1900 in Grand Rapids, who died in 1981.

Biography

Irene Emery (1900–1981) was an American art historian, scholar, curator, textile anthropologist, sculptor, and modern dancer. She was known for her pioneering research in systematically describing global textiles, and was a leading authority on ancient fabrics and textiles, and for her published book The Primary Structures of Fabrics: An Illustrated Classification (1966).

Emery had worked at the Textile Museum from 1954 until 1970. Additionally she had worked as a sculptor for the Federal Art Project, and was a modern dancer in Martha Graham Dance Company.

From the Wikipedia article “Irene Emery”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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