Costume drawing by Judy Dearing for Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for the character Stanley Kowalski in the play A Streetcar Named Desire. The drawing depicts a man standing with his left hand behind his side and holding a rectangular toolbox in his right hand. He wears light gray coverall, a white belt, and white work boots. The man and his clothing are outlined in graphite with an 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: 1993
• Created by: Judy Dearing, American, 1940 - 1995
• Subject of: Alliance Theatre, American, founded 1968
• Type: design drawings
• Medium: graphite and pigment on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 13 3/4 × 11 1/16 in. (34.9 × 28.1 cm)
• Place used: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Costume
• Topic: Costume design
• Topic: Design
• Topic: Theatre companies
• Object number: 2014.128.16
• 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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