Smithsonian Institution Exclusive
Description
This sumptuous length of silk is more than just a pretty scarf with birds on it. It reproduces an iconic section of the hand-painted wallpaper in The Peacock Room at the Freer Gallery of Art, originally designed by James McNeill Whistler in 1877 and moved to the National Museum of Asian Art in 1923.
The Birds of Brilliance Silk Scarf's elegant asymmetrical design reproduces Whistler's pair of peacocks in dark teal blue and golden yellow. It is screen printed by hand on pure silk with a hand-rolled hem.
Museum Story
The National Museum of Asian Art is a global resource for understanding Asian arts, cultures, and societies and their intersection with the United States. Opened in 1923 as the country's first national art museum, it now stewards one of the world's best collections of Asian art, which date from antiquity to the present, from China, Japan, Korea, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Ancient Near East, and the Islamic world (including Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa). The museum also holds an important array of 19th- and early 20th-century American art of the Aesthetic Movement.
Details
- 71"l. x 17"w.
- Hand-rolled hem
- 100% silk
- Imported
