Original hand-painted costume design for Arthur Hunnicutt's role as Bull Harris in the 1967 Paramount Pictures Western film El Dorado, accomplished by noted Old West artist and Hollywood consultant Joe De Yong on an off-white 12.25 x 18 sheet, signed in the lower right in paint, "Joe De Yong." The costume concept shows the bearded character in a full-length pose, wearing a fringed leather jacket, brown pants, and cowboy boots with spurs, with a six shooter holstered on his belt. Matted to an overall size of 19.5 x 26, with a caption affixed at the bottom. In fine condition, with tape to the top and bottom of the mat, and wear to edges.
El Dorado was the last film that De Yong worked on, the capstone of a long career that included many of the era's top Westerns, including The Plainsman (1937), Union Pacific (1939), Susannah of the Mounties (1939), Northwest Mounted Police (1940), Tall in the Saddle (1944), The Virginian (1946), Ramrod (1947), Red River (1948), The Big Sky (1952), Shane (1953), and Rio Bravo (1959). That he came out of retirement after fifteen years to work on El Dorado is telling—the concept clearly impressed him, and he must have considered it to be an important project. De Yong was the only protégé of the legendary Montana artist Charles M. Russell, and he is well-known for his Western artwork. Robert Shelton's Old Tucson Studios Collection
