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, Costume Design: Night Light, for Ziegfeld Follies of 1920
- brush and watercolor, graphite on heavy paper.
- 1970-55-3
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Fairbanks Twins, for Ziegfeld Follies of 1920
- brush and watercolor, gold and silver paint, graphite on heavy paper.
- 1970-55-4
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Design for Stage Curtain: The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- pen and black ink, brush and gouache, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-11
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Fioretta, Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1929
- graphite, watercolor, and gold paint.
- 1976-80-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Front of Saddle Rock Sallon, for The Unsinkable Molly...
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-12
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Scrim Design: Vienna Street, Christmas Scene, for The Gay Life
- pen and black ink, brush and opaque watercolor on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-13
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Night, for 110 in the Shade
- brush and gouache on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-14
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Rainstorm, for 110 in the Shade, 1963
- brush and watercolor, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-15
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Sunset, for 110 in the Shade
- brush and black ink and colored wash over graphite on white illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-16
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Railroad Stop, for 110 in the Shade
- brush and gouache, watercolor, pen and black ink over graphite on white....
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-17
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Street, for 110 in the Shade
- brush and gouache, watercolor, pen and black ink over graphite on white....
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-18
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Picnic Ground, for 110 in the Shade
- brush and gouache, pen and black ink, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-19
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Street Facade at Night, for The Girl Who Came to Supper
- brush and colored wash, pen and black ink, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-20
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Stage, for The Girl Who Came to Supper
- brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-21
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Bajour
- brush and watercolor, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-22
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Irene's, for Baker Street, 1964
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-24
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Courtyard, for Baker Street
- brush and watercolor, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-25
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
- brush and watercolor, graphite on paper.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-26
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Manos Garage, for Ilya Darling
- brush and watercolor, graphite on paper.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-27
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Production Design: Porgy and Bess Film
- graphite, orange crayon on tacing paper.
- 1974-55-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Production Design: Porgy and Bess Film
- charcoal, orange and blue crayon on tracing paper.
- 1974-55-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Production Design: Porgy and Bess Film
- graphite on tracing paper.
- 1974-55-3
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing (USA)
- 1986-110-6
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: The April Fools
- 1986-110-9
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Bartley, Scene 1, Lysistrata
- brush and ink wash, brush and white gouache, black marker, oil pastel,....
- 1986-110-10
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Dear Little Denmark
- 1986-110-14
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Dear Little Denmark
- 1986-110-15
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Honeymoon Chalet
- brush and watercolor, graphite on paper.
- 1986-110-16
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: New England State Senate Hearing Room, for “The...
- pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, white gouache over....
- Gift of Eldon Elder Associates.
- 2000-13-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing (USA), 1958
- brush and watercolor, graphite on paper.
- Gift of John Gregory.
- 1990-121-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: A Living Room
- brush and watercolor, gouache, black pastel on paper, laid down on board....
- Gift of Simon Lissim.
- 1974-17-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Scenic Design: All the World Wondered
- Gift of University of California, Los Angeles.
- 1973-15-122
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Scenic Design: All the World Wondered
- Gift of University of California, Los Angeles.
- 1973-15-121
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.