Costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for Peter in Porgy and Bess: Museum Object and Cultural History
Costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for Peter in Porgy and Bess: Date: 1995. Created by: Judy Dearing, American, 1940 - 1995. Type: design drawings.
The object in the museum catalogue
A costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for the character Peter in the musical Porgy and Bess. The drawing depicts a standing man with a thick mustache and wearing brown round-rimmed glasses. He also wears a gray slouch hat with a yellow hat band, a white dress shirt, blue overalls, and brown brogan 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 left facing corner, with Dearing's signature in black ink below the stamp. The reverse is blank.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1995
- Created by: Judy Dearing, American, 1940 - 1995
- Type: design drawings
- Medium: graphite, watercolor, and pigment on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 13 5/8 × 11 in. (34.6 × 27.9 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Art
- Topic: Costume
- Topic: Costume design
- Topic: Design
- Topic: Musical Theatre
- Topic: Opera (Music)
- Object number: 2014.128.9
- 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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