Research Catalog
Incubus
- Title
- Incubus [graphic] / Brown.
- Author
- Brown, Lewis.
- Publication
- 1962.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Still image | Supervised use | *MGZGB Bro L Inc 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Schiele, Egon, 1890-1918.
- Description
- 2 drawings on cardboard (1 sheet) : ink, gouache, col.; 51 x 38 cm.
- Summary
- Costume design for the role of the mother, danced by Brunilda Ruiz. A second drawing on the verso is partly obscured by a gummed label. It depicts an unidentified female figure and may also be a costume design for the same ballet.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Costume design drawings.
- Note
- Signed and dated.
- Labeled: Incubus, mother. After Egon Schiele.
- Includes fabric swatches.
- Biography (note)
- Gerald Arpino's ballet Incubus (music, Anton Webern) was first presented in a preview performance in Sept. 1962 by the Robert Joffrey Ballet. It portrayed a young girl's descent into madness and her rejection by her parents and community. Lewis Brown, 1928-2011, designed costumes for theatre, opera, and ballet. A native of California, he moved to New York in the 1950s, and worked for television before making his first New York costume designs for the New York City Ballet's production of Medea in 1958. The design's reference to Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele calls attention to the figure's scanty garments and stockings, a mode of attire seen in many of Schiele's paintings of women.
- Call Number
- *MGZGB Bro L Inc 1
- OCLC
- 780439418
- Author
- Brown, Lewis.
- Title
- Incubus [graphic] / Brown.
- Imprint
- 1962.
- Biography
- Gerald Arpino's ballet Incubus (music, Anton Webern) was first presented in a preview performance in Sept. 1962 by the Robert Joffrey Ballet. It portrayed a young girl's descent into madness and her rejection by her parents and community. Lewis Brown, 1928-2011, designed costumes for theatre, opera, and ballet. A native of California, he moved to New York in the 1950s, and worked for television before making his first New York costume designs for the New York City Ballet's production of Medea in 1958. The design's reference to Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele calls attention to the figure's scanty garments and stockings, a mode of attire seen in many of Schiele's paintings of women.
- Local Note
- For another costume design by Lewis Brown for the mother in Incubus, dated Nov. 1962, see: *MGZGE Bro L Inc 1.Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Added Author
- Schiele, Egon, 1890-1918. Associated name
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGB Bro L Inc 1