W.H. Crain Costume and Scenic Design Collection ca. 1650-1993 (bulk 1900-1960).

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W.H. Crain Costume and Scenic Design Collection ca. 1650-1993 (bulk 1900-1960).

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The bulk of the collection consists of original renderings of costume and scenic designs for plays, operas, ballets, revues, and film, augmented by works of art on paper, costumes, prints, and other materials. Represented in the Artists series are over eighty costume and scenic designers ranging from the Bibienas in the seventeenth century to Jo Mielziner. Though the work of French, British, and Russian artists is present, the emphasis is firmly on twentieth century American designers. Subseries A. Renderings, ca. 1650-1993, contains over 850 study sketches and preliminary and final renderings executed in a variety of media for productions staged in the United States and Europe. Subseries B. Other Materials, 1819-1979, contains materials that relate to specific artists but which are not renderings, such as costumes, ephemera, reproductions of original renderings, and works of art on paper. Notable items include costumes by Léon Bakst and Nicholas Roerich for Ballet Russe productions of Narcisse and Le sacre du printemps, and an Edward Gordon Craig set model. Other designers who are well represented in the Artists series are Percy Anderson, Lemuel Ayers, Luigi Bartezago, Cecil Beaton, Alexandre Benois, Attilio Comelli, Edward Gorey, Archie Gunn, Robert Edmond Jones, Charles Karl, Arch Lauterer, William Henry Mathews, Jo Mielziner, James Reynolds, Nicholas Roerich, Alessandro Sanquirico, Sidney H. Sime, Ernest Stern, and Dolly Tree. The French Music-Hall series contains souvenir programs and original costume and scenic designs. Although many of the renderings are probably from the Folies-Bergère, it is likely that other Parisian venues are represented. The bulk of the series comprises renderings for showgirls' costumes by Ranson, Alec Shanks, and Zig, and scenic designs by Dany. The Toy Theater Prints series contains colorful plates intended for children that show the characters and settings for plays. The bulk of the series consists of prints for over twenty plays that were popular enough in London for British publishers to issue sets of plates as children's versions. Most of these plates were published by Benjamin Pollock, I.J. Dyer and Co., or John Redington. Completing the series are four folders of undated French and German toy theater prints published by Imagerie Pellerin and Verlag J.F. Schreiber. The final series, Sources, contains assorted materials that illustrate popular styles of dress.

4 document boxes, 31 oversize boxes, 18 flat file drawers (16.8 linear feet)

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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...

Bartezago, Luigi.

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Stern, Ernst, 1876-1954

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Composer Ralph Benatzky and designer Ernst Stern worked with director Erik Charell at the Grosse Schauspielhaus in Berlin in the 1920s. From the description of Set designs for the operetta Casanova, [1928]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 712599047 ...

Mathews, William Henry.

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Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980

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Cecil Beaton, theatrical designer, won the 1960 Tony Award for costume design for his work on SARATOGA. He was also nominated for best scenic designer for the same production. From the guide to the Costume designs for Saratoga, 1959, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.) B. in London, 1904;d. January 18, 1980. From the description of Cecil Beaton : Artist File. (International Center of Photography). WorldCat record id: 539084703 Eng...

Reynolds, James, 1891-

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Epithet: of Red Lion Square, London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x00003c James Reynolds, Irish painter and author and admirer of architect Andrea Palladio. Traveled extensively in Europe and the United States. From the description of Sketches for Palladio and of Monticello [manucript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 57466769 Epithet: called 'E L A Berwick', of...

Verlag J.F. Schreiber

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Mielziner, Jo, 1901-1976

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Actor, scene designer, and lighting designer and innovator; d. 1976. From the description of Jo Mielziner collection, [193-]-[197-]. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70923011 Donald Mitchell Oenslager, an American stage designer and professor, was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 7 March 1902. Oenslager began his career in the theater as an actor, working at the Greenwich Village Theatre and the Provincetown Playhouse during the early 1920s. He became interested i...

Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924

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Russian artist. From the description of Léon Bakst autograph letter to unidentified recipient, 1922 June 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 528674978 Ballet, theater and opera designer, and artist Leon Bakst (1866-1924) was born in Grodno, Russia and studied art in St. Petersburg and in Paris. Some of Bakst's best-known works were for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He died at his home in Paris. From the guide to the Leon Bakst designs, ca. 1911-1923, (The New...

Crain, W. H.

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American rare books and manuscripts curator. From the description of W.H. Crain Costume and Scenic Design Collection ca. 1650-1993 (bulk 1900-1960). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 79212500 ...

Ayers, Lemuel

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Award winning designer of sets and costumes and a theatrical producer, Lemuel Ayers (1915-1955) had a brief but brilliant career with extensive Broadway credits including High button shoes and Oklahoma! He was born in New York City and received a degree in architecture from Princeton University and a degree in drama from the University of Iowa. From the guide to the Lemuel Ayers set designs, elevations and blueprints, 1941-1954, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Divisi...

Karl, Charles, d. 1942.

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Benois, Alexandre, 1870-1960

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Russian stage designer, director, and art historian. From the description of Autograph postcard signed, dated : [Paris, 12 December 1933], to M.D. Calvocoressi in London, [1933 Dec. 12]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873163 ...

Gunn, Archie.

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Pollock, Benjamin,

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Lauterer, Arch, 1904-1957

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Comelli, Attilio, 1858-1925

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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William Shakespeare was likely born April, 23, 1564; he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford while working in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare. John was a leatherworker and involved in local politics, first becoming an alderman and eventually a town bailiff. ...

Jones, Robert Edmund

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Robert Edmond Jones was born in 1887, and spent his career as a theater set designer. He also worked on the production of early Technicolor films as a color consultant. As a stage designer, Jones is best known for his simplified sets that complemented the action of a production and his dramatic use of color in costuming and lighting. From the description of Robert Edmond Jones papers, 1916 - 1963. (Wesleyan University). WorldCat record id: 299159602 Jones graduated from Harv...

Sanquirico, Alessandro, 1777-1849

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Italian painter. From the description of Drawing, 1835. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83539448 Italian architect. From the description of Drawing, ca. 1810. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83264898 ...

Redington, John W., 1851-1935

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John "Watermelon" Redington was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1851, attended grammar school, and worked as a printer's devil. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1874 as a means of traveling to the West. He was discharged in 1874, worked for the Salem Oregon Statesman, and founded a job printing establishment in Salem. He left job printing to wander through Oregon, Idaho, and Utah as a tramp printer and in search of adventure. In the process he served as a scout in the Nez Perce India...

Anderson, Percy, -1928

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English costume designer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 55 York Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W., [London], to Mary Frances Ronalds, 1900 Nov. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125576 Designer and painter Percy Anderson was known in England for his work with producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the original productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas (all D'Oyly Carte productions at the Savoy from The yeoman of the guard on). The majority of Anderson'...

Sime, Sidney Herbert, 1867-1941

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I.J. Dyer and Co,

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Imagerie Pellerin (Epinal, France),

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Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000

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Edward Gorey was born February 22, 1925, in Chicago, Ill, and died April 15, 2000, in Hyannis, Massachusetts. He followed a career as author, illustrator, and designer. His books for children are generally regarded as nonsense fiction, while his writing for adults is more satirical. He is better known, however, for his illustrations....

Tree, Dolly

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Roerich, Nicholas, 1874-1947

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