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, 2: ASF Season light plot drawings and prints All’s Well That Ends Well (designer: Will Steven Armstrong): 3: six tracings 4-7: construction drawings/prints Romeo & Juliet (designer: David Hays): 8-10: plans 11, 12: elevations The Merry Wives of Windsor: 13: full scale building detail tracing 14-20: building detail tracings 21: twenty small sketch tracings 22: plan 23: elevation 24: plan/blueprints 25-26A: elevations 27, 28: gloss photo stats

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1: negative Xerox of sketch 2-5: plan and elevation original tracings

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1-3: finished plan and elevation tracings 4: finished light plot tracing 5: rough light plot tracing 5A: instrument schedule 6-11: finished prints 12: full-scale prop drawing on tracing paper 13-24: full-scale prop drawings on brown paper

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1-12A: finished plan, elevation, and lighting tracings 13, 14: scenic item list 15-29: complete set: finished plan, elevation, and lighting prints 30-37P: finished plan and elevation prints 38-75: rough tracings 76-85: rough prints 86-90: lists 91: theatre plan tracings 92, 93: rough sketches