Costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for Porgy and Bess
date: label: Date
content: 1995
name: label: Created by
content: Judy Dearing, American, 1940 - 1995
notes: label: Description
content: A costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for an unidentified female character in the musical Porgy and Bess. The drawing depicts a standing woman wearing a bronze-toned knee-length sheath dress with full-length sleeves. The dress has a wrap front bodice that is draped across and tied at the woman's left front side waist. She wears dark brown high-heeled shoes. The woman and her clothing are outlined in graphite with watercolor and unidentified pigment shading. The stamp for the United Scenic Artists Local 829 is in black ink in the lower left facing corner, with Dearing's signature in black ink below the stamp.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Costume
label: Topic
content: Costume design
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Musical Theatre
label: Topic
content: Opera (Music)
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.128.12
objectType: label: Type
content: design drawings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown - Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: graphite, watercolor, and pigment on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (35.4 × 27.6 cm)