Object Timeline

1938

  • Work on this object began.

1948

  • Work on this object ended.

1971

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Set Design: Backstage for "Strip for Action"

This is a Drawing. It was created by Stewart Chaney. It is dated ca. 1943 and we acquired it in 1971. Its medium is brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on illustration board. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Stewart Chaney.

Its dimensions are

37.1 × 50.7 cm (14 5/8 × 19 15/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed in brush and ink wash, lower right: Chaney

It is inscribed

Verso: Inscribed in graphite: Backstage

Cite this object as

Drawing, Set Design: Backstage for "Strip for Action"; Stewart Chaney; USA; brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on illustration board; 37.1 × 50.7 cm (14 5/8 × 19 15/16 in.); 1971-73-1

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