Drawing, Study for Stage Set, "The Gang's All Here", Act 1, Scene 1

Henry Dreyfuss

1931

brush and gouache, watercolor, graphite on white wove paper, joined

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A colorful, stylized drawing depicts a collection of circus animals and performers against a black background, with a striped canopy overhead. The scene includes a hippo, horse, giraffe, lion, elephant, snake, birds, and two figures. A colorful, stylized drawing depicts a collection of circus animals and performers against a black background, with a striped canopy overhead. The scene includes a hippo, horse, giraffe, lion, elephant, snake, birds, and two figures. Drawing of several animals: a fishbowl with fish, hippopotamus, bat, red horse, pelican, ostrich, two parrots and birdcage, lion, elephant, giraffe, two frogs, and snake, and a striped tent. Gift of University of California, Los Angeles