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BOX 68, 145-147, 191-192 Sam Norkin Caricatures, 1946-1997
This series consists of 85 original works drawn by caricaturist Sam Norkin (1917–2011). Norkin was a New York-based illustrator whose drawings of musicals, operas, and plays were published in Backstage, Variety, New York Herald Tribune, and the New York Daily News, among other prominent publications. The works collected by Stiga date from 1946 to 1997 and span the majority of Norkin's career. A few of the caricatures depict productions also found in the Design Renderings series.
Arranged alphabetically by production title.
BOX-FOLDER 191/1 6 Rms Riv Vu (play), 1972
BOX-FOLDER 145/1 110 in the Shade (musical), 1963
BOX-FOLDER 191/1 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical), 1976
BOX-FOLDER 145/1 Becket (play), 1961
BOX-FOLDER 68/1 The Best Man (play), 1960
BOX-FOLDER 145/1 The Birthday Party (play), 1967
BOX-FOLDER 68/1 Call Me Madam (musical), 1950
BOX-FOLDER 191/2 The Cave Dwellers (play), 1958
BOX-FOLDER 145/2 The Cold Wind and the Warm (play), 1958
BOX-FOLDER 145/2 Comédie-Française (Dom Juan, Amphitryon), 1970
BOX-FOLDER 68/2 Command Decision (play), 1947
BOX-FOLDER 68/2 The Consul (opera), 1950
BOX-FOLDER 191/2 The Creation of the World and Other Business (play), 1972
BOX-FOLDER 68/3 Cyrano de Bergerac (play), 1997
BOX-FOLDER 145/2 The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (play), 1957
BOX-FOLDER 191/3 The Day the Money Stopped (play), 1958
BOX-FOLDER 68/3 Death and the Maiden (play), 1992
BOX-FOLDER 191/3 Dude (musical), 1972
BOX-FOLDER 68/4 An Evening with Beatrice Lillie, 1952
BOX-FOLDER 145/3 The Father (play: Strindberg), 1981
BOX-FOLDER 68/4 First Impressions (musical), 1959
BOX-FOLDER 68/5 Flight into Egypt (play), 1952
BOX-FOLDER 145/3 The Gay Life (musical), 1961
BOX-FOLDER 145/3 Happily Never After (play), 1966
BOX-FOLDER 145/4 The Happy Time (musical), 1968
BOX-FOLDER 145/4 High Spirits (musical), 1964
BOX-FOLDER 68/5 The Homecoming (play), 1967
BOX-FOLDER 68/6 The Iceman Cometh (play), 1946
BOX-FOLDER 191/4 In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (play), 1969
BOX-FOLDER 145/4 Ivanov (play), 1966
BOX-FOLDER 191/4 Jamaica (musical), 1958
BOX-FOLDER 146/1 King Lear (play), 1950
BOX-FOLDER 146/1 Kwamima (musical), 1964
BOX-FOLDER 68/6 The Lady from Dubuque (play), 1980
BOX-FOLDER 146/1 The Last Savage (opera), 1972
BOX-FOLDER 146/2 Light Up the Sky (play), 1948
BOX-FOLDER 191/5 The Little Foxes (play), 1967
BOX-FOLDER 146/2, 191/5 Lohengrin (opera), 1966
BOX-FOLDER 146/2 Long Day's Journey into Night (play), 1956
BOX-FOLDER 146/3 The Loves of Cass McGuire (play), 1966
BOX-FOLDER 68/7 Man and Boy (play), 1963
BOX-FOLDER 68/7 Medea (play), 1947
BOX-FOLDER 146/3 Metamorphosis (play), 1989
BOX-FOLDER 146/3 More Stately Mansions (play), 1967
BOX-FOLDER 146/4 Nine (musical), 1982
BOX-FOLDER 68/8 Of Thee I Sing (musical), 1952
BOX-FOLDER 146/4 Orpheus Descending (play), 1957
BOX-FOLDER 192/1 Othello (play), 1970
BOX-FOLDER 146/4 Our Town (play), 1975
BOX-FOLDER 68/8 Paint Your Wagon (musical), 1951
BOX-FOLDER 146/5 Pal Joey (musical), 1961
BOX-FOLDER 146/5 Paris '90 (play), 1952
BOX-FOLDER 146/5 La périchole (operetta), 1956
BOX-FOLDER 147/1 Peter Grimes (opera), 1967
BOX-FOLDER 147/1 Philadelphia, Here I Come! (play), 1966
BOX-FOLDER 147/1 Pickwick (musical), 1965
BOX-FOLDER 147/2 The Pleasure of His Company (play), 1958
BOX-FOLDER 147/2 I puritani (opera), 1976
BOX-FOLDER 147/2 A Raisin in the Sun (play), 1959
BOX-FOLDER 68/9 The Rape of Lucretia (opera), 1948
BOX-FOLDER 68/9 Remains to be Seen (play), 1951
BOX-FOLDER 68/10 Requiem for a Nun (play), 1959
BOX-FOLDER 68/10 Rome, Harold, 1950
BOX-FOLDER 147/3 Romulus (play), 1962
BOX-FOLDER 147/3 Sail Away (musical), 1961
BOX-FOLDER 147/3 Salome (opera), 1965
BOX-FOLDER 192/1 Seascape (play), 1975
BOX-FOLDER 192/2 Separate Tables (play), 1957
BOX-FOLDER 192/2 Short Eyes (play), 1974
BOX-FOLDER 192/3 Side by Side by Sondheim (revue), 1977
BOX-FOLDER 68/11 The Siege of Corinth (opera), 1975
BOX-FOLDER 147/4 The Subject was Roses (play), 1964
BOX-FOLDER 68/11 That Lady (play), 1949
BOX-FOLDER 68/12 Tiny Alice (play), 1964
BOX-FOLDER 147/4 Toys in the Attic (play), 1960
BOX-FOLDER 192/3 Trial of the Catonsville Nine (play), 1971
BOX-FOLDER 192/4 Les Troyens (opera), 1973
BOX-FOLDER 192/4 Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical), 1972
BOX-FOLDER 192/5 Vanessa (opera), 1958
BOX-FOLDER 192/5 Veux Carré (play), 1977
BOX-FOLDER 147/5 The Visit (play), 1958
BOX-FOLDER 68/12 The Waltz of the Toreadors (play), 1957
BOX-FOLDER 147/5 You Can't Take it With You (play), 1966
BOX-FOLDER 147/5 Zoot Suit (play), 1979
BOX 8, 41, 67, 100, 144, 148, 215 Prints and Posters, 1821-1990
This series contains approximately 50 prints and posters which, unlike the unique pieces in Design Renderings, were meant to be reproduced and distributed to the public. These works span from early nineteenth century prints from architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel and lithographers Johann Wenzel Zinke and Johann Christian Schoeller to Günther Schneider-Siemssen's edition of scenic prints from Der Ring des Nibelungen (1972) and artist Robert Indiana's series for The Mother of Us All (1976). This series also holds several prints by Ernst Stern, a frequent collaborator of German director Max Reinhardt. As with design renderings, an underlined name indicates additional information may be found in the Designer Files.
Arranged alphabetically by creator.
Colin, Paul
BOX-FOLDER 215/2 Sculptures Nères (choreographic work : Bölin), 1925
25 3/4" H x 30 3/4"
Herbert, Jocelyn
BOX-FOLDER 67/10 Lulu (opera), 1977
No. 27/500
Indiana, Robert
BOX-FOLDER 100/1, 148/1 The Mother of Us All (opera), 1976
Lane, Theodore
BOX-FOLDER 8/5 "Proteus Bidding for a Suit of Theatrical Armour," undated
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
BOX-FOLDER 144/5 Unidentified production, 1821
Schneider-Siemssen, Günther
BOX-FOLDER 148/2 Der Ring des Nibelungen (opera), 1972
Box set of 16 reproduced prints, edition 221/2000
Stern, Ernst
BOX-FOLDER 67/11 Die grüne Flöte (choreographic work), circa 1918
BOX-FOLDER 67/11 Prima ballerina (choreographic work), circa 1918
BOX-FOLDER 67/11 Die Schäferinnen (choreographic work), circa 1918
Zinke, Johann Wenzel; Schoeller, Johann Christian
BOX-FOLDER 41/6 Kabale und Liebe (play), undated
BOX-FOLDER 41/6 Das schwarze Kind, undated
BOX-FOLDER 41/6 Wilhelm Tell (opera), undated
Unknown printer
BOX-FOLDER 67/12 "Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt," undated
BOX-FOLDER 8/6, 144/6 Unidentified productions, circa 1825
Window cards
BOX-FOLDER 144/7 The School for Wives (play) and The Trial of the Catonsville 9 (play), 1971
BOX-FOLDER 144/8 Stardust (musical), 1990
BOX 9-13, 41-42, 69, 218-236 Research Files, 1873-2017, (bulk 1935-1997)
Divided into Designer Files and Subject Files, this series contains supplemental information on Paul Stiga's collection, including exhibition information, gallery and auction house listings, programs, theatrical venue souvenir books, and articles and magazines on design subjects and on individual designers.
Organized alphabetically into two subseries.
BOX 9, 41-42, 69, 218-228 Designer Files, 1911-2004, (bulk 1947-1997)
Stiga maintained informational files on many of the designers he collected. The majority of these files are limited to a single article or obituary notice, although others contain exhibition catalogs, biographical pamphlets, or other ephemera specific to a designer's life and work. Many of these materials are in languages other than English, such as Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. Individuals with more substantive files include Boris Anisfeld, Léon Baskt, Alexandre Benois, Eugene Berman, Edward Gordon Craig, Donald Oenslager, and Günther Schneider-Siemssen. The file on Irene Sharaff consists entirely of photocopies of designs held in other collections. Designers whose names are underlined also have renderings identified in this collection.
Arranged alphabetically by designer.
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