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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.

Breck Girl

n.d.

Joseph Yoakum American, 1890-1972

United States

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

Graphite pencil and color offset lithograph on cream wove paper

Prints and Drawings

African Diaspora

African American artists