Back stage, a picnic & it rained

Maker Ishigo, Estelle (1899 - 1990)

Date1942-1945

Mediumpencil, paper

DimensionsH: 8 in, W: 10.5 in

ClassificationsFine Arts

Credit LineJapanese American National Museum

Object number94.195.7AC

DescriptionPencil drawing of two unrelated images: the first is a woman backstage and the second shows people standing in the rain in front of a stage. Horizonal rectangle is divided into two parts with a narrow border along top. In the vertical rectangle on the left, a woman dressed in slippers, a robe tied at the waist, and hair tied up pulls aside a curtain with her right hand as she walks up two stairs, her back to the viewer; the words, "Back Stage" written below. In the horizontal rectangle on the right, a sketch of a landscape where a large crowd of people under umbrellas gather in front of a stage visible in the distance under cloudy skies and rain; mountains visible behind stage; the words, "a picnic & it rained" written below. Two holes punched along bottom edge.;1 drawing on paper ; image 4.125 x 6.25, on sheet 8 x 10.5 in.