Research Catalog
Ken Dewey collection
- Title
- Ken Dewey collection, 1943-1987 (bulk 1959-1972).
- Author
- Dewey, Ken.
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Status | Container | 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. | Tube 70 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Tube 70 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Tube 69 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Tube 69 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 71 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 71 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 68 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 68 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 67 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 67 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 66 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 66 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 65 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 65 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 64 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 64 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 63 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 63 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 62 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 62 | Offsite |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Box 61 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 61 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 60 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 60 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 59 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 59 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 58 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 58 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 57 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 57 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 56 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 56 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 55 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 55 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 54 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 54 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 53 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 53 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 52 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 52 | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- 32 linear feet (69 boxes, 2 tubes)
- Summary
- Ken Dewey (1934-1972) was a performance artist, playwright, director, and arts administrator who was active in the Happenings movement of the 1960s. The Ken Dewey collection contains project files, photographs and slides, writings and audio and visual recordings that represent Dewey's creative work; files that represent Dewey's work as an arts administrator at the American Cooperative Theatre, Action Theatre, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York State Commission on Cultural Resources, and the Planning Corporation of the Arts; material pertaining the exhibition Action Theatre: The Happenings of Ken Dewey, a posthumous retrospective curated by Barbara Moore at Franklin Furnace in 1987; and a small amount of personal files and art by other artists.
- Subjects
- Actor's Workshop (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Promptbooks
- Engravings
- Clippings
- Conceptual art
- Theater
- Photographs
- Kaprow, Allan
- Planning Corporation of the Arts
- Scripts
- Rabe, Folke, 1935-
- Donner, Henrik Otto, 1939-
- Happenings (Art)
- New York (State) > Commission on Cultural Resources
- Ono, Yōko
- Moore, Barbara, 1936-
- Slides
- New York State Council on the Arts
- Posters
- Sheet music
- American Cooperative Theatre
- Drawings
- Avant Garde Festival of New York
- Arts, Modern > 20th century
- Diaries
- Riley, Terry, 1935-
- Video recordings
- Actor's Workshop (San Francisco)
- Sound recordings
- Performance art
- Action Theatre
- Genre/Form
- Clippings.
- Diaries.
- Drawings.
- Engravings.
- Photographs.
- Posters.
- Promptbooks.
- Scripts.
- Sheet music.
- Slides.
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required. Inquiries regarding audio and video materials in the series may be directed to the Billy Rose Theatre Division (theatre@nypl.org). Audio/visual materials may be subject to preservation evaluation and migration prior to access.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Material may not be duplicated without written permission of the rights holder.
- Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 1991-010
- OCLC
- 847665674
- Author
- Dewey, Ken.
- Title
- Ken Dewey collection, 1943-1987 (bulk 1959-1972).
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required. Inquiries regarding audio and video materials in the series may be directed to the Billy Rose Theatre Division (theatre@nypl.org). Audio/visual materials may be subject to preservation evaluation and migration prior to access.
- Terms Of Use
- Material may not be duplicated without written permission of the rights holder.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Dewey, Kenneth/Selma Last Year Collection; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 1991-010