Ballet, Paris Opera

Longstreet, Stephen (1907-2002)

Item type:

drawing

Height:

27.9 cm  (11 in.)

Width:

21.6 cm  (8 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor and graphite

Place of creation:

United States

Description

Watercolor sketch of a ballerina whose positioning suggests a twirl that gives the observer a view from her front and back simultaneously. Item is signed by the artist (lower right corner) and inscribed "Ballet-Paris Opera"(top left corner).

Iconclass

48C8422
female dancer
43C912
woman dancing alone
48C84
the ballet, ballet performance

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Image URLs

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Notes

Artist Stephen Longstreet is perhaps better known as an author but he was also active as an artist. The University of Chicago Library owns many of his artworks at their Special Collections Research Center (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/select.html) and also refers patrons to Longstreet materials at the Oakland Museum, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Yale University, the Mugar Memorial Library of Boston University, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution.

RIdIM record id

6092