Tree Brooch (Prendedor en forma de árbol)

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Tree Brooch (Prendedor en forma de árbol)

Mexico, 1945
Jewelry and Adornments; necklaces
Silver, Mexican opals
3 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (8.89 × 9.53 cm)
Gift of Penny Morrill (M.2013.5.2)
Not currently on public view

Label

In 1945 Frederick Walter Davis invited five extraordinarily beautiful and talented women for a luncheon at his home: choreographer Rosa Covarrubias and her close friend Carmen López Figueroa, actress ...
In 1945 Frederick Walter Davis invited five extraordinarily beautiful and talented women for a luncheon at his home: choreographer Rosa Covarrubias and her close friend Carmen López Figueroa, actress Sally Foster, art patron María Asúnsolo, and screenwriter Mary Anita Loos. At each plate was a wrapped box containing a tree brooch, the design for which was based on Miguel Covarrubias's (1904–1957) clever genealogical "Tree of Modern Art," which had been published in Vanity Fair in 1933. This is one of the five brooches Davis created for this special occasion.
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Bibliography

  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017.