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AN ORIGINAL HILARY KNIGHT WATERCOLOR, "ANGEL IN THE WINGS." A portrait of Elaine Stritch (1925-2014) performing in "Civilization" in a costume designed by Hilary Knight in 1947, image 1
AN ORIGINAL HILARY KNIGHT WATERCOLOR, "ANGEL IN THE WINGS." A portrait of Elaine Stritch (1925-2014) performing in "Civilization" in a costume designed by Hilary Knight in 1947, image 2
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AN ORIGINAL HILARY KNIGHT WATERCOLOR, "ANGEL IN THE WINGS."
A portrait of Elaine Stritch (1925-2014) performing in "Civilization" in a costume designed by Hilary Knight in 1947,

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AN ORIGINAL HILARY KNIGHT WATERCOLOR, "ANGEL IN THE WINGS."

A portrait of Elaine Stritch (1925-2014) performing in "Civilization" in a costume designed by Hilary Knight in 1947, watercolor and color crayon, executed c.2007, 270 x 195 mm, signed in blue watercolor lower right ("Hilary Knight"), matted.
WITH: Signed publicity photograph for the musical revue Angel in the Wings, 1947, 200 x 180 mm, inscribed and dated in felt tip pen, "To Hilary 'Oh my God!' x Elaine Stritch 8/2/07."

Broadway legend Elaine Stritch (1925-2014) was 22 when she made her debut in a Hilary Knight designed costume in Angel in the Wings. Young Knight at the time was employed by costume designer Julia Sze to render her designs. "I did all her drawings," he recalls. "She did several shows in the '40s for producer Anthony Farrell ... This was one of them...Elaine was barely known." She had one comedy number called "Civilization" ("Bongo, Bongo/I don't want to leave the Congo"). "Julie had no idea what to do and asked me to design it ... Years later, I was interviewed along with Miss Stritch on the Arlene Francis radio show. I asked her if she remembered the costume, [and] she said, 'Loved it ... kept it ... and made it into a lamp!"

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