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, Elevations for Scenic Design: All the World Wondered
- Gift of University of California, Los Angeles.
- 1973-15-120
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: All the World Wondered
- graphite, red crayon, pen and black ink on paper.
- Gift of University of California, Los Angeles.
- 1973-15-119
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- El Camino Real Model
- wood, metal, paint.
- Gift of Peter Wexler.
- 1971-5-1
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Happy Time
- brush and opaque watercolor, graphite on gray cardboard.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-9
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Joseph, for Judith
- brush and opaque watercolor, graphite on gray paper.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-11
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Potemkin, for Pleasures and Palaces
- brush and opaque watercolor, graphite on gray illustration board.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Designs: Sharma, Evans, Valor, and Doby, for Pleasures and...
- brush and opaque watercolor, black ink, graphite on gray illustration board.
- Gift of Freddy Wittop.
- 1971-1-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Judith, for Hayfever
- pen and black ink, brush and yellow and pink wash on notebook paper with....
- Gift of Jane Greenwood.
- 1970-56-3
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: The Pirates of Penzance
- brush and watercolor, graphite on paper with attached fabric swatch.
- Gift of Patton Campbell.
- 1970-53-3
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: The Pirates of Penzance
- brush and watercolor, graphite on paper with attached trim sample.
- Gift of Patton Campbell.
- 1970-53-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Marie Young, for The Pirates of Penzance
- brush and watercolor, graphite on paper.
- Gift of Patton Campbell.
- 1970-53-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Act I, Scene 1, Gashwiler's General Store, for Merton...
- brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-17
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Finale, for Merton of the Movies
- graphite on thin paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-16
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Act III, Scene 2, Boarding House, for Merton of the...
- graphite on thin paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-15
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Act III, Scene 1, Cutting Room, for Merton of the Movies
- graphite on thin paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-14
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Act II, Scene 2, for Merton of the Movies
- graphite on thin paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-13
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Act III, Scene 1, for Merton of the Movies
- graphite on thin paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-12
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Act I, Scene 2, Reception Room, for Merton of the...
- graphite on thin paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-11
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Act I, Scene 1, Gashwiler's Store, for Merton of the...
- graphite on thin paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-10
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Courtroom Scene, for Inquest, 1970
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, acrylic, cut-out photographs on paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-9
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Mrs. Hitchcock, for Sgt. Musgrave's Dance
- brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-6
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Sgt. Musgrave, for Sgt. Musgrave's Dance, 1968
- brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-5
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Study for Miners, for Sgt. Musgrave's Dance, 1968
- brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-4
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Christine, for Mourning Becomes Electra
- brush and watercolor, acrylic on paper with attached velvet swatch.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-3
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Lavinia, for Mourning Becomes Electra, 1969
- brush and watercolor, acylic on paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Act II, Scene 2, for Mourning Becomes Electra
- pen and black ink, brush and opaque watercolor, acrylic on wove paper.
- Gift of Karl Eigsti.
- 1970-52-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Second Shepherd's Play
- brush and watercolor, ink on drawing board.
- Gift of Jay Keene.
- 1970-51-8
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Miyamoto's Wife, for Caligula
- black felt tip pen, brush and watercolor on wove paper with attached fabric....
- Gift of Jay Keene.
- 1970-51-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Mickey Malloy, for A Touch of the Poet
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache on thin paper.
- Gift of Ben Edwards.
- 1970-50-8
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Deborah, for A Touch of the Poet
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache on thin paper.
- Gift of Ben Edwards.
- 1970-50-7
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Nora, for A Touch of the Poet
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache on thin paper.
- Gift of Ben Edwards.
- 1970-50-6
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Gadsby, for A Touch of the Poet
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache on thin paper.
- Gift of Ben Edwards.
- 1970-50-5
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Act III, for Sweet Love Remembered
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on tracing paper.
- Gift of Ben Edwards.
- 1970-50-4
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Painter's Studio, for Harold
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on tracing paper.
- Gift of Ben Edwards.
- 1970-50-3
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: More Stately Mansions
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on tracing paper.
- Gift of Ben Edwards.
- 1970-50-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Poor Richard, 1964
- brush and watercolor, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-23
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
