Costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for Bess in 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 the character Bess in the musical Porgy and Bess. The drawing depicts a woman standing with her left hand at her side and her right hand on her hip. She wears a short-sleeved, low neck white peasant top tucked into a dark blue knee-length wrap skirt, and light brown high-heeled pumps. The woman and her clothing are outlined in graphite with her hair colored in with black ink and other shading done with an unidentified pigment. 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. The reverse is blank.
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: 2014.128.27
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, pigment, and ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 13 5/8 × 10 15/16 in. (34.6 × 27.8 cm)