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Drawing, Costume Design: Bishop, for "Checkmate"
This is a Drawing. It was music composed by Arthur Bliss and designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and production directed by Ninette de Valois and made for (as the client) The Royal Opera House. It is dated ca. 1947 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- Costume, Black Queen for Checkmate
- costume.
- The Sarasota Ballet.
- 20.2020.1a/c
Its dimensions are
39.5 × 30.5 cm (15 9/16 × 12 in.)
It is signed
Signed in black ink, lower right: E. Mcknight Kauffer
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: Deep red where blk / Light " " grey / yellow " " white; center left: silver [line to glove]; center: [line to hat] silver; upper right, arrow to neck: this should be like a starched collar / but silver in tone or material; center right: [line to belt] silver; [line to glove] silver; in black ink, lower right: Bishop - “Checkmate”
Cite this object as
Drawing, Costume Design: Bishop, for "Checkmate"; Music composed by Arthur Bliss (British, 1891–1975); Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Production directed by Ninette de Valois (Irish, 1898–2001); Client: The Royal Opera House; USA; brush and gouache, graphite on white paper; 39.5 × 30.5 cm (15 9/16 × 12 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-281
