About the Artwork
Costume for Walrus
1932
Irene Sharaff
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Unknown
Unknown
Wood, cloth, paint, and plaster
Overall (trousers): 45 inches (114.3 cm) Overall (back seam of coat): 48 1/2 inches (123.2 cm) Overall (front seam of waistcoat): 43 inches (109.2 cm)
Puppets
Performing Arts
Gift of the Museum for the Arts of Decoration of the Cooper Union
54.325
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Provenance
Museum for the Arts of Decoration of the Cooper Union (New York, New York, USA)
1954-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 35, no.1 (1955-56): p. 27.
Bell, John. Strings, Hands, Shadows: A Modern Puppet History. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, ca. 2000, (color ill.) 62.
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Irene Sharaff, Costume for Walrus, 1932, wood, cloth, paint, and plaster. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Museum for the Arts of Decoration of the Cooper Union, 54.325.
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