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: Terrace, for Chéri
- brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-10
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Interior, for Chéri
- brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-9
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Night, for Maiden Voyage, 1955
- brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-6
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Terrace with Greek Motifs and Constellations, for...
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gold paint, graphite on illustration....
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-5
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: North African Coast, for Maiden Voyage, ca. 1955
- brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on illustration board.
- Gift of Oliver Smith.
- 1969-171-4
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Janet's Husband, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on white paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-264
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Suppliant, for "Queen of Scots", 1934
- brush and gouache, graphite on brown paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-263
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Male Character, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on notebook paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-262
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Andy, for "Queen of Scots", 1934
- brush and gouache, graphite on gray paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-261
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Study for Serving Man, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on notebook paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-260
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Study for Maitland of Tellington, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on notebook paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-258
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Male Character, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-257
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Study for Morton, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on notebook paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-256
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Morton, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-255
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Chatellard, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on notebook paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-254
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Chatellard, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-253
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Arran, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-252
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Study for Arran, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on notebook paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-251
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Arran, for "Queen of Scots", 1934
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-250
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Ruthven, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on notebook paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-249
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Ruthven, for "Queen of Scots", 1934
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-248
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Male Costume, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache on notebook paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-244
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Lethington, for "Queen of Scots", 1934
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-245
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Lethington, for "Queen of Scots", 1934
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-246
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Ruthven, for "Queen of Scots", 1934
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-247
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Bothwell, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-240
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Bothwell, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on white paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-241
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: James, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-242
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: James, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on white notebook paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-243
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Lord Darnley, Second Dress, for "Queen of Scots", 1934
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-236
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Bothwell, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-237
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Bothwell, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache on gray paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-238
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Bothwell, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-239
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Stage Design: Study, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache on black paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-232
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Rizzio, for "Queen of Scots", 1934
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-233
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Rizzio, for "Queen of Scots"
- brush and gouache, graphite on parchment.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-234
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
