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Costume Design: Dancers Manège, for Ringling Brothers Circus

Cooper Hewitt

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Object Details

Designer

Miles White, American, 1914–2000

Catalogue Status

Research in Progress

Description

Vertical rectangle. Two women in a dancers manège. At left, woman in full, plaid skirt, headpiece of ribbons and feathers, exaggerated eyepiece, holding a parrot. At right, a woman in drapey pants with an elaborate headpiece of ribbon, holding a scimitar. Detailed rear views of costumes illustrated below.

Date

1952

Accession Number

1971-4-7

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

costume & accessories

Object Name

Drawing

Type

Drawing

Medium

Brush and watercolor, ink on paper

Dimensions

H x W: 39.5 × 29.1 cm (15 9/16 × 11 7/16 in.)

made in

USA

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Data Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq494c4ceff-b16c-43a4-a65b-af340e35e3ad

Record ID

chndm_1971-4-7

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