James Tiroff notebooks and art works
Scope and Contents
Accompanying the diary accounts (and frequently forming collages within the notebooks) are letters to Tiroff from friends and family members; photographs of Tiroff and others; pen and ink and watercolor abstract illustrations and drawings of people, production costumes and sets, and theatre floor plans; and ephemera including performance programs and handbills, train schedules, ticket stubs, hotel business cards, postcards, and newspaper clippings, maps, and organic material. Several letters from Malina and Beck in January of 1965, during their incarceration in the United States, sent to company members in Belgium, describe how set and costume designs should be constructed for The Maids. One folder of Living Theatre performance programs and Tiroff’s Italian motorcycle registration papers follow the notebooks. Tiroff’s art works within sketchbooks and as single sheets include pen-and-ink drawings of Living Theatre productions, nudes, and oil and watercolor portraits, including one self-portrait.
Dates
- 1962-1966
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
1.5 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
James Tiroff (1939-1975)
- Beck, Julian, 1925-1985
- Collages (visual works)
- Costume design
- Counterculture
- Drawings (visual works)
- Experimental theater -- United States -- 20th Century
- Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
- Malina, Judith, 1926-2015
- Nineteen sixties
- Portraits
- Scrapbooks
- Set designers -- United States
- Sketchbooks
- Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery
- Tiroff, James, 1939-1975
- Watercolors (paintings)
- Title
- Guide to the James Tiroff Notebooks and Art Works
- Author
- by Susan Brady
- Date
- January 2010
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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