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