Dance Archives, 1940-1949.

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Dance Archives, 1940-1949.

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This collection consists of documentation produced and assembled from 1940 until 1949 by the staff of the Dance Archives. Included are a variety of record types: correspondence, photographs, lists, clippings, memos, press releases, checklists, printed matter, notes, reports, and a typed mss. Selected noteworthy correspondents include: Eugene Berman, Robert Edmond Jones, Salvador Dali (1 item), Lilian Gish (1 item), Arch Lauterer, Marc Chagall (1 item), and Lee Simonson.

1.5 linear ft. (4 boxes)

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7963745

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Theatre Arts.

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The Dance Archives, founded by Lincoln Kirstein, was established as a branch of the Museum's Library in October 1939 to provide a specialized research collection for the study of contemporary dance. The original collection of books, prints, photographs, slides, films and other dance/theatre related items were donated to the Museum from the extensive collections of Lincoln Kirstein, Gordon Craig, and Fred King. In 1944-45 the Dance Archives was regarded as a separate cura...

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Dance Archives

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Museum of modern art New York, N.Y.

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Died 1989. From the description of Archives pamphlet file : Titus, Roy V. : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83119924 Art museum; New York, N.Y. From the description of Museum of Modern Art first loan exhibition : November 8th to December 7, 1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557713 d. 2001. From the description of Archives pamphlet file : Matisse, Maria-Gaetana : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unk...

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996

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American ballet director, writer, and dance historian, 1907-1995. Lincoln Kirstein was born in Rochester, NY, educated at Harvard (B.A. 1929, M.A. 1930). He married Fidelma Cadmus, sister of artist, Paul Cadmus, in 1941 and served in the U.S. Army 1943-45. He co-founded School of American Ballet with George Balanchine and Edward M.M. Warburg in 1934. Participated in the founding and/or direction of American Ballet in 1935, Ballet Caravan 1936-41, Ballet Society in 1946, and became general direct...