A Broadway musical comedy

Daugherty, James Henry (1889-1974)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
20th century
Height:
29.8 cm  (11 3/4 in.)
Width:
23.6 cm  (9 5/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
India ink and watercolor over graphite

    Item location

  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
    [Museum inv. no.: 1954.147.219]

Description

Colorfully dressed chorus girls are dancing on stage with the orchestra below the stage and the heads of the audience in the foreground. The faces of the dancers are clear, but their bodies are formed with blocks of color, making it difficult to determine where one body ends and the next begins. The orchestra is depicted similarly in a cluster of colored shapes in which one can make out a conductor with a baton, some violinists, half of a violin, some sheet music, and one timpani.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]
Kettledrum [2887]

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3657