Research Catalog
First sketch for mermaid, Far harbour
- Title
- First sketch for mermaid, Far harbour [graphic] / H Armistead.
- Author
- Armistead, Horace
- Publication
- 1948.
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Details
- Description
- 1 painting : watercolor, ink, graphite, color; 51 x 36 cm.
- Subject
- Bergersen, Baldwin, 1914-2000. Far harbour
- Genre/Form
- Costume design drawings.
- Note
- Signed and dated.
- Source (note)
- Helen E. Davis and Georgene W. Davis
- Biography (note)
- Horace Armistead, 1898-1980, designed sets and costumes for Ballet Society and its successor, the New York City Ballet, as well as for operas, musicals and plays. Among his works was Far harbour (music, Baldwin Bergersen; text, William Archibald), a lyric drama commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein and produced by Ballet Society, portraying a man caught in a struggle between his mother and a mermaid. The work received two test performances at Hunter College in New York City on Jan. 22-23, 1948, but its hopes of a Broadway run were never realized.
- Local note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Call Number
- *MGZGE Arm H Far 1
- OCLC
- 824609170
- Author
- Armistead, Horace.
- Title
- First sketch for mermaid, Far harbour [graphic] / H Armistead.
- Imprint
- 1948.
- Summary
- Costume design for a female ballet dancer.
- Biography
- Horace Armistead, 1898-1980, designed sets and costumes for Ballet Society and its successor, the New York City Ballet, as well as for operas, musicals and plays. Among his works was Far harbour (music, Baldwin Bergersen; text, William Archibald), a lyric drama commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein and produced by Ballet Society, portraying a man caught in a struggle between his mother and a mermaid. The work received two test performances at Hunter College in New York City on Jan. 22-23, 1948, but its hopes of a Broadway run were never realized.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Source
- Gift; Helen E. Davis and Georgene W. Davis, 1971.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGE Arm H Far 1