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Oliver Smith
"On The Town" Broadway Musical Set Design Theatre Drawing WPA American Modernism
1944

About the Item

"On The Town" Broadway Musical Set Design Theatre Drawing WPA American Modernism. 13 3/4 x 20 1/2 gouache and watercolor on paper. Signed lower right. This is the drawing is the third act curtain of the set design from the original 1944 Broadway production of "On The Town." Provenance: The Betty Comden estate. BIO Born in Waupun, Wisconsin, Smith attended Penn State, after which he moved to New York City and began to form friendships that blossomed into working relationships with such talents as Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Carson McCullers, and Agnes de Mille. In his early 20s, he lived at February House in Brooklyn with a coterie of famous people centered on George Davis and W. H. Auden. He tended the furnace, washed the dishes, and soothed the tempers of both residents and visitors. His career was launched with his designs for Léonide Massine's ballet Saratoga in 1941 and de Mille's Rodeo in 1942. Smith designed dozens of Broadway musicals, films (Guys and Dolls, The Band Wagon, Oklahoma!, Porgy and Bess), and operas (La Traviata). His association with the American Ballet Theatre began in 1944, when he collaborated with Robbins and Bernstein on Fancy Free, which served as the inspiration for On the Town. The following year, he became co-director of ABT with Lucia Chase, a position he held until 1980. He designed the sets for ABT's complete 1967 production of Swan Lake, the first full-length version mounted by an American company. Smith also trained young designers for many years, serving on the faculty of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he taught master classes in scenic design. Throughout his career, Smith was nominated for twenty-five Tony Awards, often multiple times in the same year, and won ten. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work on Guys and Dolls. Smith was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1981 In 2011, Smith was inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame. Smith redesigned the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York City Landmark and Interior Landmark), New York, in the early 1960s.

Creator:
Oliver Smith (1918 - 1994, American)
Creation Year:
1944
Dimensions:
Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 28 in (71.12 cm)
Medium:
Paper,Watercolor,Gouache
Movement & Style:
Performance
Period:
1940-1949
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1156210035142

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