- Title
- Tree Brooch (Prendedor en forma de árbol)
- Date Made
- 1945
- Medium
- Silver, Mexican opals
- Dimensions
- 3 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (8.89 × 9.53 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2013.5.2
- Collecting Area
- Latin American Art
- Curatorial Notes
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.
- Selected 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.
