Costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for Robbins in Porgy and Bess

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A costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for the character Robbins in the musical Porgy and Bess. The drawing depicts a standing man with brown round-rimmed glasses and a thin mustache. He wears a brown derby hat with a gray hatband, a mustard yellow three-piece suit, a light gray dress shirt, a light blue necktie, and dark brown shoes. The man and his clothing are outlined in graphite with watercolor and unidentified pigment shading. The stamp for the United Scenic Artists Local 829 is in black ink in the lower left facing corner, with Dearing's signature in black ink below the stamp. The reverse is blank.

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