Description
Muriel King was an illustration artist and costumer primarily known as a fashion designer and important couturier from the 1930s into the 1950s. She was known for her practical approach to fashion, designing classic clothes that would look stylish for years. Her interesting and varied career included designing Katherine Hepburn’s personal wardrobe, and costumes for Hollywood movies between 1935 and 1945, such as Stage Door (1937) starring Ginger Rogers, and Cover Girl (1944) starring Rita Hayworth. She contributed the to the war effort with work clothes for female shipyard workers in World War II. Throughout her life, King was also a skilled landscape watercolorist, apparently drawn to complex compositions emphasizing the play of light and shadow. From 1957, she turned exclusively to painting.
Condition: Generally very good with minor toning overall. Paper slightly cockled. Some tape adhesive residue in margins verso. Frame condition fine.
References:
Bawa, Mary P. “Muriel King.” Designer History. 2003. http://www.designerhistory.com/historyofashion/kingm.html (29 September 2006).
“Muriel King.” Internet Movie Database. 2006. http://imdb.com/name/nm0455090/ (29 September 2006).
“Safety Clothes for Women.” Kaiser Vancouver / SwanIsland & Oregon Shipyards. http://www.beadee.com/kaiser/bosns_whistle/vol_3_no_21/p-11.htm (5 September 2002).
