Costume drawing by Judy Dearing for Selig in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

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A costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for the character Rutherford Selig in the August Wilson play Joe Turner's Come and Gone. The drawing depicts a standing man wearing a dark gray tall derby hat with a black hatband, a gray pinstriped single-breasted jacket with matching trousers, a light gray dress shirt, a blue tie, and black oxford shoes. The man and his clothing are outlined in ink 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.

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