Research Catalog
[People of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay]
- Title
- [People of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay] [graphic] / Ada Peacock.
- Author
- Peacock, Ada.
- Publication
- [194-? or later]
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- Description
- 5 prints on cardboard : photolithograph?, color; 31 x 23 cm., four prints on mount 46 x 31 cm. or smaller.
- Summary
- Reproductions of watercolor paintings. Each depicts a single figure in folk costume.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Photolithographs.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Source (note)
- Estate of Josephine Butler.
- Biography (note)
- Ohio-born Ada Peacock designed costumes for the Broadway musicals Happy go lucky (Liberty Theatre, 1926) and Honeymoon lane (Knickerbocker Theatre, 1926). In London, she designed costumes for Follow the sun, Charles B. Cochran's 1936 revue (Royal Adelphi Theatre). She married an Englishman and moved with him to Argentina, where she produced watercolor and gouache paintings of the people, costumes, and customs of Argentina and other South American countries. She also designed menu covers for shipping lines.
- Contents
- Argentina: Dancing the gato -- Argentina: Gaucho with boleadoras -- Bahia-Brasil: Food vendor -- Paraguay: Rolling a cigar -- Uruguay: Gaucho of 1860.
- Call Number
- *MGZFX Pea A Peo 1-5
- OCLC
- 825000006
- Author
- Peacock, Ada.
- Title
- [People of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay] [graphic] / Ada Peacock.
- Imprint
- [194-? or later]
- Biography
- Ohio-born Ada Peacock designed costumes for the Broadway musicals Happy go lucky (Liberty Theatre, 1926) and Honeymoon lane (Knickerbocker Theatre, 1926). In London, she designed costumes for Follow the sun, Charles B. Cochran's 1936 revue (Royal Adelphi Theatre). She married an Englishman and moved with him to Argentina, where she produced watercolor and gouache paintings of the people, costumes, and customs of Argentina and other South American countries. She also designed menu covers for shipping lines.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Source
- Gift; Estate of Josephine Butler.
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- Research Call Number
- *MGZFX Pea A Peo 1-5