HAND PAINTED SILK SCARF
Creator(s): Billi Cheatwood (Painter)
Currently in storage
About this object
Square, gray, silk scarf, hand painted with words in gold, white, purple, and silver. At the center of the scarf is written “Marjorie” at a diagonal in script. At the lower left corner—“Marjorie Linda Mujer” with a treble clef to the left and a small music staff with two music notes to the right.” “La Bella Donna Marjorie” is in the lower right corner. The upper right has the initials “MD” and the upper left has “Marjorie.” Spread throughout the scarf are names of places, polka dots, initials, “Marjorie,” phrases about beauty, and words in Cyrillic. Along the middle of the right hand side written in purple is “made especially for MARJORIE DAVIS by billi cheatwood-beverly hills.”
- Object name:
- HAND PAINTED SILK SCARF
- Made from:
- silk
- Date made:
- 1935-1955
- Size:
- 32 in. L., 33 in. W
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 2014.10.21
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTION: made especially for MARJORIE DAVIS by billi cheatwood-beverly hills
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973