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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1-5: 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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1-3: finished tracings 4-7: finished prints 8-23: rough tracings 24: folder of small rough tracings 25-27: rough prints 28: poster from Ballet Troupe/Robert Troupe

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1, 2: finished tracings 3: finished print 4-7: rough tracings

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1, 2: finished tracings 3-3C: finished prints (duplicates) 4, 5: rough 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, 2: full floor plans of ballroom at Waldorf Astoria 3-5B: ballroom plans 6-8: light plot tracings 9-9B: light plot prints

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A: rough building plan tracing 1: finished tracing 2: brown-line finished print on tracing paper 3, 4: finished prints 5-7: rough tracings 8: paint elevation