Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Harvard men--Robert Edmond Jones, Donald Oenslager, and Lee Simonson--are the artists, whose theatrical designs are now on exhibit in Fogg. While these designs prove that all three are excellent draftsmen, colorists, and masters of composition, their real work is not hanging in the galleries. They are scenic designers, and their finished creations are physical settings on a stage. Jones has said that a scene design is no more than an "intention." These artists' designs must be judged as "intentions," without consideration of such qualities of an actual setting as plasticity and compatibility with the play's flow...
...exhibition at Fogg has been set up with great care, imagination, and a deliberate striving for dramatic effect. Recordings of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex" are played in the gallery, and the lighting is more impressively intelligent than at most exhibitions...
More than 200 costume and set designs went on exhibit yesterday at Fogg Museum. The designs are the work of three Harvard graduates who have been active in the theatre--Robert Edmond Jones '10, Donald Oenslager '23, and Lee Simonson...
...conjunction with the exhibit there will be a series of talks in Fogg's Large Lecture Room on stage design, music in the theatre, and other aspects of the contemporary theatre. The first lecture of the series will be given October...
...three designers were members of the Harvard Dramatic Club; Jones while a member of the Faculty, and Oeuslager and Simonson as undergraduates. In conjunction with the Fogg exhibition, the H.D.C. is presenting a reading of O'Neill's "He," a one act play, in Fogg Large Lecture Room on October...