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Remy Charlip"Carolyn at the Stevensons" Remy Charlip, 4 Portraits of Carolyn Brown, Nature1955
1955
$500
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€441.36
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About the Item
Remy Charlip
4 Photos of Carolyn at the Stevensons, 1955
Inscribed by Carolyn Brown on verso
Photograph
10 x 8 1/4, 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches
Provenance
Estate of Carolyn Brown, New York 2025.
Remy Charlip was born in January 1929 and raised by his Lithuanian Jewish parents in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York. He showed a natural talent for the visual arts and became known as the “official” school artist, decorating the classrooms for his favorite holidays, Valentine’s Day and Thanksgiving. Although he had aspirations to become both a farmer and a clown, his mother recognized his artistic talent and thought it was more practical for him to attend Strabenmuller Textile High School where learned to design fabrics. This led him to being accepted into The Cooper Union School of Fine Arts where he received his BFA in 1949. After graduating and feeling he had nothing to say as a painter, he decided to become a dancer because he saw them as free spirits. He accepted a fellowship at Reed College to work with choreographer Bonnie Bird designing sets and costumes for The Marriage at the Eiffel Tower by Jean Cocteau. It was during that summer at Reed College he met and fell in love with composer Lou Harrison who composed music for the summer productions that were Remy’s first dance performances. After traveling across the country with Harrison, they settled back in New York where Remy began taking classes from The New Dance Group. This led to him dancing in Donald McKayle’s first piece, Games, at the Ziegfield Theater, for which he also designed costumes.
Remy met John Cage and Merce Cunningham through Harrison and, due to his masterful calligraphy skills, was asked to design a flyer for an upcoming program. Cunningham then invited him to take dance classes with him and it wasn’t long before Remy began dancing with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He became a founding member of the company and did publicity and designed flyers as well as danced with them. For the first eight years with the company he also designed costumes and collaborated with Robert Rauschenberg on the productions of Springweather and People and Minutiae. As a member of the company he was also an artist-in-residence at Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina, where he met many influential artists and thinkers of the time. He joined the extended family and befriended some of the most brilliant culture makers of the 20th Century including artists Josef and Annie Albers, Franz Klein, Cy Twombly, Willem and Elaine DeKooning, Jacob Lawrence, Arthur Penn, Ben Shahn, Ruth Asawa, Norman Soloman, Ray Johnson and Nicolas Cernovich; poets Charles Olsen, Robert Creely and M.C. Richards; musicians John Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor, and Earl Brown; architect Buckminster Fuller and children’s book author Vera Williams.
Working as a dancer, director, choreographer, illustrator, author, costume and set designer provided opportunities to work with many notable artists and venues in New York’s avant-garde. Judith Malina and Julian Beck asked Remy to join their new company the Living Theater. He performed in plays, designed programs, choreographed and danced in their production of Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. He also danced with Jean Erdman, Katherine Litz and Sabina Nordoffand performed at Café La Mama, the Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop and Brooklyn Academy of Music. He created sets and costumes for Kenneth Koch at the Cherry Lane Theater and for Paul Goodman he also designed the sets and costumes and created choreography. He appeared at Greenwich Village’s Village Gate with Andy Warhol and Edward Albee. In 1958 Remy joined the Paper Bag Players, the longest running children’s theater in North America, for which he received his first Village Voice Obie Award. He won a second Obie for Distinguished Direction for a play from poems by Ruth Kraus, A Beautiful Day (1965) with music by Rev. Al Carmines of the Judson Poets Theater with whom he directed many musicals.
Charlip had many exhibitions of his paintings and drawings from his picture books. These illustrations, including drawings of his Air Mail Dances, were displayed at four museums in Japan, as well as a 100-foot mural he painted at the Remy Charlip Library in Greenville, Delaware. These exhibits include paintings from his book Harlequin at the Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center in New York City; a selection from seven of his books at The San Francisco Public Library in an exhibit called Remy Charlip’s World: Books Into Theater/ Theater Into Books; an exhibition of drawings of his theater piece, Amaterasu, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles as their first artist-in-residence; Harlequin: A Movie Proposal at the Junior Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park; an interactive exhibit, The Book Is Dead, Long Live The Book, in the Caen Bibliothique in France; an exhibit of Air Mail Dances at Dance Theater Workshop; and perhaps one of the greatest honors as a picture book author and illustrator, A Celebration of Remy Charlip, an exhibition of Arm In Arm paintings at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, where he was honored for his distinguished career in the field of Children’s Literature.
He was given the first three-year grant in choreography by the NEA and five other one-year grants. He received two Irvine Fellowships in Dance, two traveling grants to go to Japan from the Japan-U.S. Arts Commission and the Asian Cultural Council/Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He received The Cooper Union Professional Achievement Award in New York City and received a laurel tree from Lou Harrison when the San Francisco Main Library made him a Literary Laureate. In 2001 the San Francisco Bay Guardian gave him their Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2005 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
- Creator:Remy Charlip (1929 - 2012, American)
- Creation Year:1955
- Dimensions:Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 8.25 in (20.96 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:Unique WorkPrice: $500
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1841216521292
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