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Benjamin Benedict Green-Field
Woman's Headband with Hat Boxcirca 1953

Not on view
Small fascinator hat on a clear acrylic stand, with fan-shaped panels cut from printed text pages edged in black beads, and a black diamond-mesh veil below

Benjamin Benedict Green-Field, Bes-Ben, Woman's Headband with Hat Box, circa 1953, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Dorothy H. Hoover, Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Designer
Benjamin Benedict Green-Field
United States, Illinois, Chicago, active 1919-1978, 1898-1988
Design House
Bes-Ben
United States, Illinois, Chicago, 1919-1978
Title
Woman's Headband with Hat Box
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1953
Medium
Headband: Cotton, nylon net, plastic; Hat Box: Cardboard and paper, printed, with cotton cord
Dimensions
Overall (Hat): 5 × 8 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (12.7 × 21.59 × 6.35 cm) Overall (Diameter) (Hat Box): 8 1/4 × 12 1/4 in. (20.96 × 31.12 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Dorothy H. Hoover
Accession Number
M.87.146.4a-c
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Jachimowicz, Elizabeth. Bes-Ben: Chicago's Mad Hatter. Chicago: Art Vision, LLC, 2020.