Overview From the Collection: Peter Wexler (1936 - 2022) worked for seven decades in performance art, as a designer of scenery, costumes, lighting, concerts, performance space, and outdoor concert facilities, as well as a producer and as a studio artist. He studied at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1958, and attended the Yale School of Drama. The Peter Wexler papers contain materials from his professional career from 1948 to 1969. This collection includes programs, reviews, correspondence,...

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1, 1A, 1B: plans 2, 3: building elevations

Scope and Contents 1-1C: plans of lighting design Problem #8 2-2C: sketches with copies 3: preliminary set sketches 4, 4A: paint elevation with reverse 5, 5A: early scene sketches with reverse 6, 6A: rough model and costume with reverse 7, 7A: final scene sketch with reverse 8, 8A: final scene sketch of interior with reverse 9-25: construction drawings/original tracings of design 26, 26A: plan prints 27-42A: design plan prints 43: lighting tracing 43A, 43B: lighting plan print 44: lighting instrument...

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1-15: finished buildings drawing/plan tracings 15+-33: rough plan/elevation tracings 34-49: finished plans 50-52C: template prints 53-55: “potato chip” surround designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian

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1, 2: small reduced size Xeroxes of original sketch 3: Xerox of full scale sketch 4: front page of New York Times, October 5, 1961 5: first rough sketch 6-9: original finished tracings 10-13: finished prints

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1-5: finished plan and elevation tracings 6-14: finished plan and elevation prints 15: rough print 16-34: rough plan and elevation tracings 35: sketch model 36: rough sketch

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1: finished plan and elevation tracing 2: rough elevation tracing 3-3C: finished plan and elevation prints (duplicates) 4-13: rough sketches 14-21: lists of function requirements, items, tasks, etc. 22: receipt from M. Epstein's Son, Inc. 23: felt and fabric samples

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1, 2: finished tracings 3, 4: finished sketches 5, 6: item lists 7-12: bound set I: finished prints 13-18: bound set II: finished prints 19-39: rough prints

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1-8: paint elevations