Accessory set
John Held Jr. American
Manufacturer Daventree
Not on view
John Held, Jr., the artist behind the witty imagery of this scarf set, was an important illustrator of the 1920s and 1930s. His work appeared in popular magazines like Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar and Redbook and his images of the quintessential flapper "Betty Co-Ed" and her cohort "Joe College" became iconic representations of the young-and-fashionable set during this period. In this example, a humorous rendition of tennis players in impossible poses, Held's graphic sense shines through in the way in which he used a checkerboard pattern to represent the net and then repeated the same pattern in tennis racket strings. These accessories, featuring the work of a known artist, exemplify the height of creativity in silk printing in the United States achieved during the 1930s.
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