Scope and Content Note
This one-box collection is organized in one series: Photographs. Most photographs document choreography of Tudor, including some of his major choreographic works such as Dark Elegies, Jardin aux Lilas, and Pillar of Fire. Artists appearing in the photos include Tudor himself, Alicia Alonso, Lucia Chase, Agnes de Mille, Eric Hampton, Nora Kaye, Hugh Laing, Maude Lloyd, Jerome Robbins, Gailene Stock, and many others. Several photographs capture works by choreographers Andrée Howard, Eugene Loring, and Frederick Ashton; one photograph of the ballet Alcestis by Martha Graham is included.
Photographers Baron Adolph de Meyer, Fred Fehl, Gjon Mili, George Platt Lynes, Enar Merkel Rydberg, Elizabeth Sawyer, Werner Wolf, Alfredo Valente, Jack Mitchell, George Hurell, Carl van Vechten, and Angus McBean are represented among the collection.