A Walter Plunkett group of costume designs for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Selznick International Pictures, 1938. Four gouache, watercolor, and pencil on illustration board costume sketches, all signed ("Walter Plunkett") to lower right, with "Little Jim" and "Joe Harper" written in pencil to bottom of two sketches, with 2 sketches mounted on cardboard. Plunkett's meticulously detailed designs perfectly capture the essence of the characters of Mark Twain's novel, representing Tom Sawyer (played by Tommy Kelly), Becky Thatcher (Ann Gillis), Tom's classmate Joe Harper (Mickey Rentschler), and Little Jim (Philip Hurlic), right down to the expressions on their faces and the monogrammed pinafore of Becky Thatcher. Cardboard mounted sketches overall: 16.25 x 20; sketches: 11 x 13.75 in.; others: 12 x 17.25 in.
A Walter Plunkett group of costume designs for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Selznick International Pictures, 1938. Four gouache, watercolor, and pencil on illustration board costume sketches, all signed ("Walter Plunkett") to lower right, with "Little Jim" and "Joe Harper" written in pencil to bottom of two sketches, with 2 sketches mounted on cardboard. Plunkett's meticulously detailed designs perfectly capture the essence of the characters of Mark Twain's novel, representing Tom Sawyer (played by Tommy Kelly), Becky Thatcher (Ann Gillis), Tom's classmate Joe Harper (Mickey Rentschler), and Little Jim (Philip Hurlic), right down to the expressions on their faces and the monogrammed pinafore of Becky Thatcher. Cardboard mounted sketches overall: 16.25 x 20; sketches: 11 x 13.75 in.; others: 12 x 17.25 in.
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