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Breck Girl

Advertisement for Breck shampoo, featuring a light-skinned white woman with shiny, short brown hair and red lips. There are a few outlines drawn onto the ad. The artist used this as a model for his drawing of Ella Fitzgerald.

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  • Advertisement for Breck shampoo, featuring a light-skinned white woman with shiny, short brown hair and red lips. There are a few outlines drawn onto the ad. The artist used this as a model for his drawing of Ella Fitzgerald.

Date:

n.d.

Artist:

Joseph Yoakum
American, 1890-1972

About this artwork

Yoakum used this magazine advertisement to create the carbon outline for Ella Fitzgerald.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Joseph Yoakum

Title

Breck Girl

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1957–1967

Medium

Graphite pencil and color offset lithograph on cream wove paper

Dimensions

28 × 21.1 cm (11 1/16 × 8 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Art Institute of Chicago

Reference Number

1979.175b

Extended information about this artwork

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