Lee Simonson
Lee Simonson (right) with other directors of the Theatre Guild (1923)
Lee Simonson (June 26, 1888, New York City – January 23, 1967, Yonkers) was an American architect painter, stage setting designer.
He acted as a stage set designer for the Washington Square Players (1915–1917), when it became the Theatre Guild in 1919, also he became a stage setting staff of the theater.
Literary works
- “Skyscrapers for Art Museums” The American Mercury, August 1927, pages 399-404
- "Minor Prophecies" New York, Harcourt and Brace, 1927[1]
- "The Stage Is Set", New York, Dover Publications, 1932[2]
- (with Theodore Komisarjevsky): "Settings and Costumes of the Modern Stage" New York Studio Productions, 1933[3]
- Isaacs, Edith J.R., editor: "Architecture for the New Theater" Lee Simonson: "Theater Planning" New York Theater Arts, 1935[4]
- Part of a lifetime: Drawings and Designs 1919-1940, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York 1943[5]
- The Art of Scenic Design; A Pictorial Analysis of Stage Setting and its relation to Theatrical Production, 1950[6]
Exhibitions
- "Modern American Design in Metal" Newark Museum March 19 - April 18, 1929 included Simonson, Donald Deskey and William Zorach
- "International Exhibition of Theater Art", Museum of Modern Art, January 15- February 25, 1934, more than 700 drawings and models from 14 countries. After the MoMA venue, the exhibition traveled to Worcester, Providence, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago and Buffalo
- Harvard Contemporary Art Society 1932, exhibition included Simonson, Bel Geddes, Robert Jones, Monsine, Ornslegger
References
- ↑ Lee Simonson (15 March 2010). Minor Prophecies. General Books. ISBN 978-0-217-25833-3. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
- ↑ Lee Simonson (September 1975). The stage is set. Books for Libraries Press. ISBN 978-0-518-10206-9. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
- ↑ Theodore Komisarjevsky; Lee Simonson (1966). Settings & costumes of the modern stage. B. Blom. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
- ↑ Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs; Lee Simonson; Frederic Arden Pawley; William Lescaze, Valerian Stepanov, National Theatre Conference (1935). Architecture for the new theatre. Pub. for the National Theatre Conference, Theatre Arts, inc. Retrieved 23 November 2011. Cite uses deprecated parameter
|coauthors=(help) - ↑ Lee Simonson (1943). Part of a lifetime: drawings and designs, 1919-1940. Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
- ↑ Lee Simonson (1950). The art of scenic design: pictorial analysis of stage setting and its relation to theatrical production. Harper. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
External links
- http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9067866
- Guide to Lee Simonson Papers at Houghton Library, Harvard University
- Works by or about Lee Simonson at Internet Archive
- Works by Lee Simonson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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