Kenneth Leslie Rowell costume design archive, 1943-1993 / Kenneth Rowell
- Bib ID:
- 6938134
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Rowell, Kenneth, 1920-1999, artist
- Related Online Resources:
- PIC Box PIC/18195 #PIC/18195/1-21 copy
- Description:
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- between 1943 and 1993
- 20 m. (20 boxes) 1 fol. box + 18 map plan drawers.
- approximately 1,400 drawings : watercolour, ink ; various + 7 sketchbooks, 108 notebooks, correspondence, magazine clippings
- approximately 590 photographs : black and white, colour ; various
- approximately 2,800 negatives : black and white ; 35 m
- approximately 1,800 slides : colour ; 35 mm
- 37 audiocassettes : analog
- Summary:
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The Kenneth Rowell costume design archive comprises approximately 1400 original costume designs for 87 productions created by Kenneth Rowell from 1943 to 1993. The works encompass Kenneth Rowell's entire theatrical design career in theatre, ballet and opera principally in Australia, plus early and later works produced in England. The archive includes a number of original poster designs for productions and festivals, production documentation, sketchbooks, notebooks, drawings, contracts, correspondence, programs, catalogues, photographs, negatives, index cards and recorded interviews with Kenneth Rowell.
- ICIP notice:
- This collection contains Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples. Restrictions on access and use of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information. Details are provided in the finding aid.
- Biography/History:
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Artist Kenneth Rowell made his career in both the visual and the performing arts. He worked London on a number of theatre shows, but he also made paintings incorporating collage, reflecting the interest in primitivism shared by fellow expatriates Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd. Over the following years he worked in Australia and England on more than 140 ballet, opera and theatre productions, and continued to create expressionist paintings and mixed media works that won critical acclaim in Australia and England.--Further information available at: https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1625409
- Notes:
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- Title from acquisitions documentation.
- PIC Box PIC/18195 #PIC/18195/1-21 copy Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Source of Acquisition:
- Part donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, and part purchased, 2019.
- Subject:
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- Rowell, Kenneth, 1920-1999 -- Archives
- Rowell, Kenneth, 1920-1999 -- Interviews
- Costume designers -- Australia -- Archives
- Set designers -- Australia -- Archives
- Costume design -- Australia -- Pictorial works
- Costume design -- England -- Pictorial works
- Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- Australia -- Pictorial works
- Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- England -- Pictorial works
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