Woman in Pink Feather Hat
Datec. 1940
Artist
Barbara Schwinn Jordan
(American illustrator, born 1907)
Illustration CitationNot published. The artist recalled that she probably submitted this illustration to Cosmopolitan magazine.
MediumWatercolor and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 18 × 15 1/4 in. (45.7 × 38.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Conrad Jordan, 1992
Object number1992-80
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextBarbara Schwinn Jordan studied art and design in the United States and Europe and worked as both illustrator and portraitist. She recalled that she probably submitted this unpublished illustration to Cosmopolitan.Throughout World War II on both sides of the Atlantic, women's hats with elaborate feathers and artificial flowers brightened the ordinary fashions brought about by rationing, especially as hat materials were among the few items not rationed.
Barbara Schwinn Jordan
1948
Barbara Schwinn Jordan
1952
Ida Marion Dougherty (Aylward)
not dated
