A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive This page from Drawing Papers 91 features “Costume design for Night Shadow”, a watercolor on paper created by #DorotheaTanning in 1945. The 2010 exhibition Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage presented approximately twenty hand-drawn ballet costume designs by Dorothea Tanning created in collaboration with the early modernist choreographer, George Balanchine. Taking the form of traditional fashion plates, the blithely rendered drawings are suggestive of bodies in motion and portrayals of outlandish characters through the quirky detailing and sensual drapery of the costumes. This drawing was created for the Metropolitan Opera Houses’s Night Shadow, which debuted in 1946 and was danced by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. The Drawing Papers are a series of publications documenting The Drawing Center’s exhibitions and public programs and providing a forum for the study of drawing. -Kate Robinson, Bookstore Manager