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1930

  • Work on this object began.

1936

  • Work on this object ended.

1961

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

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Drawing, Costume Design: Andros, for City Forgotten

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1930–1936 and we acquired it in 1961. Its medium is brush and watercolor, graphite on bainbridge drawing bristol board with attached fabric swatch. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. A. Stewart Walker.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 38 × 28 cm (14 15/16 in. × 11 in.)

It is inscribed

Top right: "CITY FORGOTTEN / ANDROS / (Wilenchick)" Notations: "Scrap of monk's clothe dyed brownish black" and "old worn ragged trousers (Guten-Berg?)" and "Moccasins"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Costume Design: Andros, for City Forgotten; USA; brush and watercolor, graphite on bainbridge drawing bristol board with attached fabric swatch; H x W: 38 × 28 cm (14 15/16 in. × 11 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. A. Stewart Walker; 1961-24-6

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