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Drawing, Costume Design: Nora, Act I, for A Doll's House, 1937

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1937 and we acquired it in 1960. Its medium is brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper with attached fabric swatches. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Donald Oenslager.

Its dimensions are

35.2 × 25.7 cm (13 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp, lower right: seal of United Scenic Artists' Union, Local 829

It is signed

Signed in graphite, lower right: Oenslager

Cite this object as

Drawing, Costume Design: Nora, Act I, for A Doll's House, 1937; USA; brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper with attached fabric swatches; 35.2 × 25.7 cm (13 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.); Gift of Donald Oenslager; 1960-226-11-a

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