Details
SUZIE ZUZEK (AMERICAN, 1920-2011)
Pretty Butters
watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper
15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.9 cm.) (unframed)
Executed in 1974.
Provenance
Created for Key West Hand Print Fabrics, Inc., Key West, Florida, 1974.
Acquired by Lilly Pulitzer, Inc., Palm Beach, Florida, sold Key West Hand Print Fabrics, Inc., 1985 to private owners.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2016.
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Zuzek was photographed in 1974 in her Key West Hand Print Fabrics art studio while creating this design. In the background, bottles of india ink and Zuzek's preferred watercolors, Dr. Ph. Martin's, are visible as well as a number of other works in progress. Zuzek was a prolific artist and created the vast majority of the prints seen on Lilly Pulitzer clothing over the two women's quarter century working together.

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