Collection on Isadora Duncan, ca. 1878-1990.

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Collection on Isadora Duncan, ca. 1878-1990.

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Collection consists of original works of art by many famous artists contemporary to modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan, including drawings and sculptures depicting her in performances and rehearsals; dance programs and business correspondence documenting her tours in Germany, Russia and Poland from 1904-1907 when Edward Gordon Craig was her manager; writings by Isadora Duncan, including a prospectus for her dance school; and original photographs and photographic reproductions in clippings of Isadora Duncan, her students, her sister Irma, Edward Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry, and Serghiéi Essenin. It also includes materials about Isadora Duncan, such as graphic works by Edward Gordon Craig, programs and objets d'art created by her brother Raymond, and the research materials of her biographer, Allan Ross Macdougall. There are also articles and citations about Isadora Duncan compiled by collector Howard Holtzman, and correspondence between Howard Holtzman and Irma Duncan. Primary sources about Duncan's personal life and works include Edward Gordon Craig's diary from 1943-1947 and a letter to his mother Ellen Terry, along with interviews about Duncan by Craig, Ruth St. Denis, Hedwig Reicher and childhood friend Cornelia Lysight. There are also materials by and about Edward Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry, and programs and photographs of other dancers who influenced or were influenced by Isadora Duncan.

24 oversize boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 8096764

University of California, Los Angeles

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Holtzman, Howard

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Holward M. Holtzman (1921-1990) was a poet, lawyer and collector. His interest in Isadora Duncan began when he read her memoirs and sought to explore and document how her artistic expression influenced the history of art. For the next thirty two years, he collected materials by and about Isadora Duncan. Recognizing the role that certain figures in her life, both of personal and artistic nature, came to bear in shaping her artistic development, Holtzman acquired the Edward Gordon Craig material i...

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...