Costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for Bobo in A Raisin in the Sun: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for the character Bobo in the Lorraine Hansberry play A Raisin in the Sun. The drawing depicts a man standing with his right hand in his jacket pocket and his left hand in a fist at his left waist. He is wearing a dark brown fedora hat with a blue hatband, a grey coat in a blue speckled pattern with a mid-thigh hemline, a dark brown sweater vest or cardigan, a gray dress shirt, bright green pants, and light brown oxford shoes. The man and his 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 right facing corner, with Dearing's signature in black ink below the stamp. The reverse is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1983-1986
• Created by: Judy Dearing, American, 1940 - 1995
• Subject of: Lorraine Hansberry, American, 1930 - 1965
• Type: design drawings
• Medium: graphite, watercolor, and pigment on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 13 3/4 × 11 in. (34.9 × 27.9 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Broadway Theatre
• Topic: Costume
• Topic: Costume design
• Topic: Design
• Topic: Drama (Theatre)
• Topic: Tragedy (Theatre)
• Object number: 2014.128.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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