Pauline Billings Taylor collection of theater designs
Overview
Costume and set designs for 20th-century theater, ballet and opera, and other sketches by Russian artists and designers
Dates
- Creation: 1892-1968
Language of Materials
Russian, French, and English
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
1 linear footIncludes costume and set designs for opera, ballet and theater, and sketches by prominent Russian artists and designers, UIrii Anennkov, Leon Bakst, Alexandre Benois, Nicola Benois, Dimitri Bouchene, Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, Aleksandr Golovin, Nataliia Goncharova, Konstantin Korovin, Konstantin Makovskii, Filip Maliavin, Georges Pogedaieff, and Valentin Serov. Productions include ballets, Carnaval, Le Corsaire, Claire, Les Dryades, Endymion, Hamlet, L'oiseau de feu, Petrouchka, Russian soldier, Symphonie no 1, Sadko, Swan lake, and La Veilee; and operas, Boris Godunov, Le Coq d'or, Eugene Onegin, Judith, Khovanshchina, Prince Igor, and Turandot.
Biographical / Historical
Pauline Billings Taylor (1910-1986) was an American lawyer and collector of Russian art.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by the name of artist.
Physical Location
pfd, ppf, framed storage
Immediate Source of Acquisition
1987-1988.154; 1991-1992.193. Gift of Carl Taylor, 1988-1992.
Processing Information
Processed by Irina Klyagin, 2018
- Title
- Taylor, Pauline Billings, collector. Pauline Billings Taylor collection of theater designs, 1892-1968 (MS Thr 1708): Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- 2017 November 16
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02863
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
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