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Ray Eames Featured in "The Mrs. Files" in The New York Times

May 18th, 2020
Ray Eames, woman sitting in chair

Ray Eames by Peter Stackpole/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images

The New York Times features a new profile of Ray Eames, who met her husband Charles while attending Cranbrook Academy of Art. In the “Mrs. Files,” the Times takes a look at history through a contemporary lens to see what the honorific “Mrs.” means to women and their identity. According to the article, “since her death in 1988, Ray Eames has been moving back to the center of the picture. Or rather, the world has been discovering that she was there all along — not just as the beaming helpmeet with sparkling eyes and a Dorothy-from-Oz dress sense, but as an artistic force in and of herself.”

Read the full story here.