 In 1942, she married industrial designer L. Garth Huxtable, and continued graduate study at New York University from 1942 to 1950.From 1950 to 1951 she spent one year in Italy on a scholarship of the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission.She served as Curatorial Assistant for Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1946 to 1950.