Tom Tierney (American, 1928-2014), Mixed Media, Ink, Pigment, And Feathers On Paper Mid Century Hollywood Fash

Tom Tierney (American, 1928-2014), Mixed Media, ink, pigment, and feathers on Paper Mid Century Hollywood fashion icon Mae West (1893 – 1980), in a padded mat, 34" x 27 3/4" overall.
This is a rare and unique creation of one of Hollywood’s iconic movie stars:

She was an actress, singer, comedian, screenwriter, and playwright with a unique comic character that is timeless. Her career spanned over 70 years. Considered a sex symbol, she was known for her breezy sexual independence and her lighthearted bawdy double entendres
She was one of the most controversial movie stars of her day; she encountered problems with censorship. In April of 1927, she was prosecuted on morals charges, and was sentenced to 10 days for "corrupting the morals of youth". Though she could have paid a fine and been let off, she chose the jail sentence for the publicity. Media attention surrounding the incident enhanced her career, by crowning her the darling "bad girl" who "had climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong"
In 1932, she signed a two-month contract with Paramount that provided her a weekly salary of $5,000 ($110,000 in 2023 dollars) by 1935, she was the highest paid woman and the second-highest paid person in the United States (after William Randolph Hearst).
Censorship made her sexually suggestive brand of humor impossible for the studios to distribute. West, along with other stellar performers, was put on a list of actors called "Box Office Poison" by the Independent Theatre Owners Association. Others on the list were Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire, Dolores del Río, Katharine Hepburn and Kay Francis. The attack was published as a paid advertisement in The Hollywood Reporter, and was taken seriously by the fearful studio executives.
Nonetheless, Mae West went on to enjoy record-breaking success in Las Vegas, swank nightclubs such as Lou Walters's The Latin Quarter, Broadway, on radio and television and in London.
West was an early supporter of the women's liberation movement, but said she was not a "burn your bra" type of feminist. Since the 1920s, she was also an early supporter of gay rights “I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.”
In 1971, the student body of UCLA voted Mae West "Woman of the Century" in honor of her relevance as a pioneering advocate of sexual frankness and courageous crusader against censorship. Mae West has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and for her contributions as a stage actor, she has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. In 1999, the American Film Institute posthumously voted her the 15th-greatest female screen legend.
In 1977 Time magazine wrote an article on the indomitable star entitled "At 84, Mae West Is Still Mae West"
She has many famous quotes and these are two of my favorites.
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
"When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm bette

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