Research Catalog
[Set designs for ballet]
- Title
- [Set designs for ballet] [graphic].
- Author
- Rychtarik, Richard, 1894-1982.
- Publication
- [194-?]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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 | *MGZGV 12-2310 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Description
- 9 paintings : watercolor, gouache, color; 33 x 41 cm. or smaller, image 34 x 24 cm. or smaller.
- 1 painting : watercolor, gouache, color ;
- 1 photographic print : b&w ;
- Summary
- Set designs, mostly for unidentified and probably unrealized ballets, variously labeled "Design for ballet," "Design for a ballet," or simply "Ballet." One painting is identified on the verso as Colloque sentimental, but it is uncertain whether this had any connection with the ballet Sentimental colloquy (choreography, André Eglevsky; music, Paul Bowles), first performed in New York in 1944 by Ballet International, with sets and costumes by Salvador Dalí. An irregularly shaped painting labeled "Kreuzberg Ballet, Cleveland, Ohio" may have been a graphic design for a poster or program rather than a set design. It is not known whether "Kreuzberg" refers to German modern dancer Harald Kreutzberg. The photographic print, labeled "Madison Square Garden, Jewish Appeal," is a sketch of a performance in progress, including dancers, orchestra, and audience as well as a view of the set. It was probably designed for the United Jewish Appeal's Night of stars benefit, held annually at Madison Square Garden, New York City, during the 1940s.
- Subject
- United Jewish Appeal
- Genre/Form
- Set design drawings.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Most of the paintings are monogrammed: RR.
- Some paintings are also signed: Richard Rychtarik.
- Six paintings are on cardboard, mounted on cardboard or matted. Four are on paper mounted on cardboard.
- Biography (note)
- Richard Rychtarik was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the United States in 1923. He designed sets and costumes for the Metropolitan Opera, the Columbia Broadcasting System, and others.
- Call Number
- *MGZGV 12-2310
- OCLC
- 820732398
- Author
- Rychtarik, Richard, 1894-1982.
- Title
- [Set designs for ballet] [graphic].
- Imprint
- [194-?]
- Biography
- Richard Rychtarik was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the United States in 1923. He designed sets and costumes for the Metropolitan Opera, the Columbia Broadcasting System, and others.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGV 12-2310