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Career
Career

Art historian Alexander Dorner called her “one of the most important…pioneers in the field of applied arts.”

He noted that her "work is of the highest interest because it integrates in the most creative manner, the scientific and aesthetic approach."

From 1940 to 1945, she designed for Botany Mills. (NYT)

= 1945-1954 she set up her own textile mill in North Philadelphia. (NYT) Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference : = She created fabrics for Edith Head, Dior, Norell and Jo Copeland, among others. (NYT)

Exhibits of her textiles were held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology

Exhibitions

1956 Textiles: U.S.A. Museum of Modern Art, New York https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/2091/releases/MOMA_1956_0072_62.pdf?2010

1957 Fabric Designs by Pola Stout Philadelphia Museum College of Art

1957 Pola Stout Bennington College Bennington, Vermont

1958 Fibers, Tools, and Weaves Traveling exhibition assembled by the American Craftsmen's Council. Pola Stout for J.P. Stevens

American Craftsmen's Council, Blumenau, L., & Smith, P. J. (1958). Fibers, tools, and weaves: Assembled by the American Craftsmen's Council, 29 West 53rd Street, New York 19.