Set design painting for Androcles and the lion, 1946.

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Set design painting for Androcles and the lion, 1946.

Consists of one original set design, watercolor on illustration board, for the play ANDROCLES AND THE LION, by George Bernard Shaw.

1 painting: color; 76.5 x 50.5 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6723866

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856, George Bernard Shaw was the only son and third and youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw. Though descended from landed Irish gentry, Shaw's father was unable to sustain any more than a facade of gentility. Shaw's official education consisted of being tutored by an uncle and briefly attending Protestant and Catholic day schools. At fifteen Shaw began working as a bookkeeper in a land agent's office which required him t...

Roth, Wolfgang, 1910-1988

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Wolfgang Roth was born in 1910 in Berlin. In the 1930s he was active in the caberet scene and worked with Erwin Piscator and Berthold Brecht, among others, as a set designer. In the mid-thirties he moved to Vienna and from there to Switzerland. Eventually he emigrated to New York where he continued to work in the field of set design including for productions on Broadway and Metropolitan and New York City opera houses. He also created paintings, sculptures, and others works of art and was an acco...