Donald Oenslager collection of Edward Gordon Craig 1881-1975

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Donald Oenslager collection of Edward Gordon Craig 1881-1975

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Collection contains materials collected by Donald Oenslager documenting the life and career of Edward Gordon Craig, including correspondence, writings, artwork and materials related to theater design, photographs and subject files. Correspondence includes letters between Craig, Isadora Duncan and Paris Singer, letters between Oenslager and various individuals concerning his collection and interest in Craig, and third party letters. Writings include holographs, typescripts, clippings and reviews of writings by Craig, Oenslager and others, primarily related to Craig, including articles by Sheldon Cheney and Ellen Terry, and typescript fragments of Isadora Duncan's My Life. Artwork and theater design contains originals and reproductions of woodcuts, etchings and drawings by Craig and others, as well as an engraved woodblock of the alphabet, a model for Craig's stage screens, prints of two etchings by Francisco Goya and a hand-colored lithograph of Ellen Terry by Pamela Colman Smith. Photographs include pictures of Craig, Ellen Terry, and others. Subject files contain newspaper clippings, theater programs of productions acted in or designed by Craig, materials related to Craig's publications The Mask and The Page, and other papers.

Total Boxes: 14; Other Storage Formats: 2 broadsides; Linear Feet: 9.45

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349586

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Smith, Pamela Colman, 1877-1925.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t15d9h (person)

Pamela Colman Smith, an artist, illustrator, and stage designer, was born in the United States and educated at Pratt Institute, but spent most of her life in England. She was associated with the Lyceum Theatre and Ellen Terry, and later was a member of Yeats's circle. From the description of Pamela Colman Smith letters to Mary B. Reed, 1896-1900. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 44177445 Illustrator; London, England. Studied in Philadelphia b...

Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966

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Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966) était acteur, metteur en scène, scénographe, graveur et théoricien du théâtre. Il était le fils de l'architecte Edward William Godwin (1833-1886) et de l'actrice Ellen Alice Terry (1848-1928). À sa naissance il s'appelait Edward Godwin Terry ; son nom fut officiellement changé en Edward Wardell en 1878. Il adopta le nom de scène Gordon Craig en 1891, qui fut officialisé par la suite. Edward Gordon Craig was born in England on 16 January 18...

Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975

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Donald Mitchell Oenslager was born on March 7, 1902, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Following graduation from Harvard University in 1923, he was an instructor in scenic design at Middlebury College, Vermont. In 1925, his former Harvard instructor, George Pierce Baker, appointed him to the faculty of the Department of Drama of the Yale School of Fine Arts. Oenslager taught design at Yale until his retirement in 1970. While at Yale, he designed sets for over 250 plays, operas, ballets, and musicals ...

Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s46v39 (person)

Spanish painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Madrid, to his childhood friend, Don Martín Zapater y Clavería, 1786 Aug. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269573806 ...

Smith, Pamela Colman

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Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980

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Art historian and writer; b. 1886; d. 1980. From the description of Sheldon Cheney papers, 1915-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122333445 ...

Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927

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Isadora Duncan was a dancer and dance teacher who is credited with inventing what came to be known as Modern Dance. From the description of The Isadora Duncan papers. 1904-1927. (University of Utah). WorldCat record id: 191855381 American dancer. From the description of Autograph note signed, dated : [n.p., n.d.], to an unidentified recipient, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873291 Isadora Duncan (1878-1927) was born 27 May 1878 in San Francisc...

Singer, Paris Eugene

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Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928

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British actress. From the description of Dame Ellen Terry correspondence and calling card, 1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980587 Epithet: actress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000002 Dame Ellen Terry was a 19th century British actress, who for many years performed opposite Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London. She was made a Dame Grand Cross in 1925. Fro...