Collection Highlights: Musicals, Movies, Circuses, and Follies
An interplay of theatrical past and present, design process and preservation, winds its way through Cooper Hewitt’s collection. The twentieth century continued many popular entertainments—plays, circuses, vaudeville—as well as developed new genres and forms—musical theater and film, to start. Designers conjured the fictional and at times fantastical worlds of these productions, represented here through costumes and scenery, often creating visual language synonymous with the story’s characters and the written text.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Bridge Set, for Flower Drum Song
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-8
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Sketch for "Gang's All Here," Act I, 1931
- brush and gouache, graphite on cream tracing paper.
- Gift of University of California, Los Angeles.
- 1973-15-134
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Title Lettering: Dr. Kelly's Medicine Show, for Production of...
- brush and gouache, black ink, graphite on heavy paper.
- Gift of University of California, Los Angeles.
- 1973-15-133
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Study for Stage Set, "The Gang's All Here", Act 1, Scene 1
- brush and gouache, watercolor, graphite on white wove paper, joined.
- Gift of University of California, Los Angeles.
- 1973-15-132
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Drawing, Costume Design: The Unsinkable Molly Brown, 1960
- pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper.
- 1971-4-6
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Jeanmaire, for The Girl in the Pink Tights
- brush and watercolors, pen and ink on paper.
- 1971-4-5
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Designs: Grandma Obeah, for Jamaica
- brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on paper.
- 1971-4-4
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Designs: Song of Norway
- brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on paper.
- 1971-4-3
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Daughters, for Bloomer Girl
- brush and watercolor on paper.
- 1971-4-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Carousel
- brush and watercolor on paper.
- 1971-4-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Melinda, for On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, ca....
- brush and clear and opaque watercolor, graphite on gray cardboard.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-20
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
- brush and clear and opaque watercolor, graphite on gray cardboard.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-19
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Sir Herbert, Act I, Scene 2, for On a Clear Day You...
- brush and clear and opaque watercolor, graphite on gray cardboard.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-18
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: George M!
- brush and opaque watercolor, graphite on gray cardboard.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-17
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: George M!
- brush and opaque watercolor, graphite on gray cardboard.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-16
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: George M!
- brush and opaque watercolor, graphite on gray cardboard.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-15
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Hello, Dolly!
- brush and watercolor, graphite on gray paper.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-10
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Agnes, for I Do, I Do
- brush and gouache, graphite on gray cardboard.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-8
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Dear World
- brush and watercolor, gouache on gray cardboard.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-7
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Designs: The Great Waltz
- brush and opaque watercolor, graphite on cardboard.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-6
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Sir, for The Roar of the Grease Paint, the Smell of...
- brush and watercolor, graphite on gray illustration board.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-5
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Urchin, for The Roar of the Grease Paint, The Smell...
- brush and opaque watercolor, black ink, graphite on gray illustration board.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-4
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Catherina’s Maids, for Pleasures and Palaces
- brush and opaque watercolor, black ink, graphite on gray illustration board.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-3
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Dancers Manège, for Ringling Brothers Circus, 1952
- brush and watercolor, ink on paper.
- 1971-4-7
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Cleopatra and Marc Anthony, for Ringling Brothers...
- brush and watercolor, pen and ink on paper.
- 1971-4-8
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Designs for Ringling Brothers Circus
- brush and watercolor, pen and ink on paper.
- 1971-4-9
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Designs: Ringling Brothers Circus
- brush and watercolor, pen and ink on paper.
- 1971-4-10
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Dancer in a Manège, for Ringling Brothers Circus
- brush and watercolor, pen and ink on paper with attached fabric swatches.
- 1971-4-11
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Bull Fighter, for Ringling Brothers Circus
- brush and watercolor, pen and ink on paper.
- 1971-4-12
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Callipoe and Costume Design: Ringling Brothers Circus
- brush and watercolor, pen and ink on paper.
- 1971-4-13
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Scene 1–12 - Urban Renewal, for On the Town
- brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing (USA), ca. 1955
- brush and watercolor, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Ziegfeld Follies of 1922
- brush and watercolor, silver paint, graphite on paper.
- 1970-55-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Carnation Girls, Midnight Frolic, for Ziegfeld Follies
- brush and watercolor, crayon, graphite on paper.
- 1970-55-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing (USA)
- graphite, brush and watercolor on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-3
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Ballet Drop, for Flower Drum Song
- graphite, brush and watercolor on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-7
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
