Museum object · Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
Costume drawing by Judy Dearing for Seth Holly in Joe Turner's Come and Gone
1992-1993
Smithsonian NMAAHC collection
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A costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for the character Seth Holly in the August Wilson play Joe Turner's Come and Gone. The drawing depicts a standing man wearing a dark gray houndstooth single-breasted jacket and coordinating trousers, a white dress shirt, a red 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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Catalog reference: 2014.128.22
