Creating the Modern Stage : Designs for Theater and Opera

The Morgan Library & Museum May 22 through August 16, 2009

The show features more than 50 original drawings from stage designers, displayed with production photos, rare books and other theatrical ephemera primarily from the first half of the 20th century.

Alexandra Exter
Construction for a Tragedy
ca. 1925
Gouache, with graphite and pen and black ink, over graphite, on paper prepared with a blue-gray ground
Signed in graphite at lower right, A. Exter.
Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1982.
The Morgan Library & Museum, 1982.75:208
20 x 20 3/4 inches (508 x 527 mm)

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