Mount Mary University Digital Collections

Illustration

Item

2024.04.25.a.jpg
2024.04.25.b.jpg

Title

Illustration

Description

Black and white retail illustration featuring designs by Geoffrey Beene; cardboard illustration board in colored pencil and graphite with white paint details; a faint light blue sketch can be seen beneath the final image; image of woman laying on her back, propped up on her left arm with legs in the air; she wears a knit jacket zipped shut with a large fold-over turtleneck; the turtleneck, cuffs, and hem are ribbed; the jacket has a complex print of a checkboard separated by zig-zag lines, with the checkerboard squares being lighter/darker with dots in the opposite tone; she wears straight-legged ankle length pants with thin vertical stripes that may suggest corduroy; she also has tall striped socks and mule pumps; she rests her left hand on a closed book; wax paper overlay reads, “Geoffrey Beene” at the top and “Woldenberg’s. Your fashion store on the Capitol Concourse.”; the protective paper cover has Ellen Dudley’s logo; measures 15 inches wide by 20 inches tall.

Creator

Dudley, Ellen

Date

1970-1990

Source

Donor: Terry Straavaldsen

Identifier

Object ID #2024.04.25.ab
https://digitalcollections.mtmary.edu/files/original/47fd5598cfc78b546095faa08f2fadac.jpg

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Subject

Fashion drawing
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Type

Still Image

Format

Still Shot

Citation

Dudley, Ellen, “Illustration,” Mount Mary University Digital Collections, accessed March 26, 2025, https://digitalcollections.mtmary.edu/items/show/4302.