Fashion Drawing
DesignerDesigned by
Gertrude Dowd Conklin
American, 1909 - 1979
Date1930-1940
MediumWatercolor and pencil on wove paper
DimensionsSheet (height x width): 12 × 8 15/16in. (30.5 × 22.7cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of the estate of Joseph T. Hall
Description(o) Fashion drawing by Gertrude Conklin. Pencil and watercolor drawing of a woman wearing a floor length, grey bridesmaid’s dress with a yellow belt, yellow hat, and yellow shoes. The woman has Caucasian skin-tone and is wearing makeup. She is drawn standing and holding a bouquet of flowers.
A description of the design is handwritten on (p) card affixed to the verso of (o). The woman wears a long gown of grey chiffon with a wide cowl neckline with a wide draped collar with an Empire waistline featuring a yellow belt.
A description of the design is handwritten on (p) card affixed to the verso of (o). The woman wears a long gown of grey chiffon with a wide cowl neckline with a wide draped collar with an Empire waistline featuring a yellow belt.
Object number1982.101.105o-p
Inscribed(p) Handwritten in pencil: “Bridesmaid’s dress of grey / chiffon with wide draped / collar [illegible] with [illegible] of / grey chiffon. High Empire belt / of yellow velvet tied in small / bow at back with low [illegible] / [illegible] of shirt pointed like collar. / Designed by / Miss Gertrude Conklin”On View
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