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Alvin Colt designs

Title
Alvin Colt designs, 1935-1990.
Author
Colt, Alvin.
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Box 1Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 1Offsite
Box 2Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 2Offsite
Box 3Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 3Offsite
Box 4Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 4Offsite
Box 5Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 5Offsite
Box 6Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 6Offsite
Box 7Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 7Offsite
Box 8Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 8Offsite
Box 9Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 9Offsite
Box 10Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 10Offsite
Box 11Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 11Offsite
Box 12Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 12Offsite
Box 13Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 13Offsite
Box 14Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 2002-020 Box 14Offsite

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Description
14 boxes: col.; 25 in. x 31 in. and smaller.
Summary
The collection consists of twelve boxes of costume designs (357 plates) for television productions (1961-1990), beginning with THE ENCHANTED NUTCRACKER but primarily from the 1970s and 1980s, and two boxes of sketches (18) for set designs for the theater from an earlier period of Colt's career (1935-1953).
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Costume design drawings.
  • Set design drawings.
Source (note)
  • Alvin Colt
Biography (note)
  • Alvin Colt (1915-), award-winning costume and scenic designer for theater, film and television was born in Louisville, Kentucky, studied at Yale, began his design work in ballet, and made his Broadway debut designing costumes for ON THE TOWN in 1944.
Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
  • Finding aid available in repository and on the Internet.
Processing Action (note)
  • Cataloged
Call Number
*T-Vim 2002-020
OCLC
NYPW03-F1
Author
Colt, Alvin.
Title
Alvin Colt designs, 1935-1990.
Biography
Alvin Colt (1915-), award-winning costume and scenic designer for theater, film and television was born in Louisville, Kentucky, studied at Yale, began his design work in ballet, and made his Broadway debut designing costumes for ON THE TOWN in 1944. This was followed by design work for Orson Welles' AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, MUSIC IN MY HEART (1947) and GUYS AND DOLLS (1950) among others. He won a Tony award for costume design for PIPE DREAM in 1956 and designed costumes for both the Broadway and film version of LI'L ABNER. His first work in television was THE ENCHANTED NUTCRACKER (1961), but it was in the 1970s and 1980s that he truly focused on that medium. His work included various awards shows such as the Emmys as well as an historical drama, THE ADAMS CHRONICLES. He returned to theater work in the 1990s and designed for the off-Broadway review FORBIDDEN BROADWAY beginning in 1994. In 1996 he received the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award in Costume Design and in 2001 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
Indexes
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Research Call Number
*T-Vim 2002-020
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