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Donald Oenslager
1902-1975
Stage Design for Wagner's Ring Cycle
1920s
Conté crayon and black ink, touched with white, scratched out, on paper.
17 x 19 1/2 inches (432 x 495 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1982.
1982.75:696
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One of a set of drawings for a set design by Donald Oenslager for an unrealized production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, ca. 1927. Oenslager's design featured a single, permanant set which, as illustrated in his series of drawings, would be successively transformed from one scene to the next with the use of dramatic lighting effects. Cf. Carnegy.
Title on mat: Flying Dutchman #8 (XI-II-26).
Inscription:
In blue pencil below image: Walkyre act III The mt. crag - Wotan appears before the walkyre on mt. top.; in pencil on verso: 3 1/2 col. inch all same height all to be delivered on Friday.
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Collection of Donald M. Oenslager, New York.
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