Lee Simonson

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Lee Simonson (June 26, 1888, New York City – January 23, 1967, Yonkers) was an American architect painter, stage setting designer.

He acted as a stage set designer for the Washington Square Players (1915–1917). When it became the Theatre Guild in 1919, he became a stage setting staff of the theater. He graduated from Harvard College in 1909.{{cite web | url=https://npg.si.edu/exh/brush/simon.htm | title=Lee Simonson }}

Literary works

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“Skyscrapers for Art Museums” The American Mercury, August 1927, pages 399-404
"Minor Prophecies" New York, Harcourt and Brace, 1927
"The Stage Is Set", New York, Dover Publications, 1932
(with Theodore Komisarjevsky): "Settings and Costumes of the Modern Stage" New York Studio Productions, 1933
Isaacs, Edith J.R., editor: "Architecture for the New Theater" Lee Simonson: "Theater Planning" New York Theater Arts, 1935
Part of a lifetime: Drawings and Designs 1919-1940, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York 1943
The Art of Scenic Design; A Pictorial Analysis of Stage Setting and its relation to Theatrical Production, 1950

Exhibitions

"Modern American Design in Metal" Newark Museum March 19 - April 18, 1929 included Simonson, Donald Deskey and William Zorach
"International Exhibition of Theater Art", Museum of Modern Art, January 15- February 25, 1934, more than 700 drawings and models from 14 countries. After the MoMA venue, the exhibition traveled to Worcester, Providence, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago and Buffalo
Harvard Contemporary Art Society 1932, exhibition included Simonson, Bel Geddes, Robert Jones, Monsine, Ornslegger

References

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{{cite book|author=Lee Simonson|title=The stage is set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KxoIAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=23 November 2011|date=September 1975|publisher=Books for Libraries Press|isbn=978-0-518-10206-9}}

{{cite book|author=Lee Simonson|title=Minor Prophecies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IwTWQQAACAAJ|accessdate=23 November 2011|date=15 March 2010|publisher=General Books|isbn=978-0-217-25833-3}}

{{cite book|author1=Theodore Komisarjevsky|author2=Lee Simonson|title=Settings & costumes of the modern stage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FdpUAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=23 November 2011|year=1966|publisher=B. Blom|isbn=9780405087165}}

{{cite book|author1=Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs|author2=Lee Simonson|author3=Frederic Arden Pawley |author4=William Lescaze |author5=Valerian Stepanov |title=Architecture for the new theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NqGCyHIW3QMC|accessdate=23 November 2011|year=1935|publisher=National Theatre Conference, Theatre Arts}}

{{cite book|author=Lee Simonson|title=Part of a lifetime: drawings and designs, 1919-1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WepXtwAACAAJ|accessdate=23 November 2011|year=1943|publisher=Duell, Sloan and Pearce}}

{{cite book|author=Lee Simonson|title=The art of scenic design: pictorial analysis of stage setting and its relation to theatrical production|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ERU-AAAAMAAJ|accessdate=23 November 2011|year=1950|publisher=Harper}}

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External links

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9067866
[http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01564 Guide to Lee Simonson Papers] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20111121125844/http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/ Houghton Library], Harvard University
[http://archives.nypl.org/the/23279 Lee Simonson Photographs, 1871-1937 [bulk 1915-1937]], held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
{{Internet Archive author |sname=Lee Simonson}}
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Category:20th-century American painters

Category:American male painters

Category:1888 births

Category:1967 deaths

Category:American scenic designers

Category:20th-century American male artists

Category:Harvard College alumni