Brooke Cadwallader Hand-Inked “Haunted Mansion” Silk Tie 1940s Marshal Fields

Designer Brooke Cadwallader hand-inked silk screen Silk Tie 1940s-1950’s Marshall Field and Company Small Batch Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Designer Brooke Cadwallader’s information is hard to come by. He was featured in the first major menswear exhibition in the United States--Adam in the Looking Glass at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950 Brooke Cadwallader was probably the first great American scarf designer. He began work in the US in 1940, after three years in Paris studying painting and then opening his own studio. But when the Germans arrived in 1940, Cadwallader assisted in the evacuation of Americans from France, and then he returned to the States to resume his business. He opened shop in New York, and became a leader in the scarf trade. According to a 1946 Life article, Cadwallader scarves sold for $15 to $20 each. They sold to designers like Tina Leser and Nettie Rosenstein. They moved to Mexico in 1950 The business operated until some time in the 1970s. Due to a crooked accountant Cadwallader lost the business. Before turning over the factory, he burned all the textiles that were in stock, his silk screens, and many of the original designs. Please carefully examine photos. ************ Your purchase helps me continue to fund my artistic work as a photographer in Hollywood California. It also helps me to feed my increasingly finicky cat who now only wants the most expensive cat food