Necktie

Unknown

ca. 1935 · silk · Costume Institute

Watermelon imagery has become a lasting perennial theme and early artistic images, such as the one found here, were used to invite a sense of fun and whimsy in a time when most of the world was recovering or enduring the Great Depression. This style of representative imagery is indicative of printed silks of the 1920s and 30s.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1935

Medium

silk

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Miss S. Walsh, 1962