Research Catalog

Title

Pocahontas [graphic].

Publication

1963.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Binder, Pearl.
• Toms, Carl.
• Goell, Kermit, 1915-1997.
• Fisher, Nelle.

Found In

Nelle Fisher collection.

Description

• 3 drawings : ink, b&w; 27 x 35 cm. or smaller.
• 10 drawings : ink, watercolor, gouache, metallic pigments, crayon, color ;
• 1 drawing : pastel, color ;
• 6 photographic prints : b&w ;

Summary

• Chiefly set and costume designs from the musical Pocahontas. Fourteen drawings by illustrator/costume designer Pearl Binder, including a title page and two illustrations possibly from Goell's children's novel, and eleven costume designs. Several of the costume designs are labeled, including: Act 2 guests at wedding [two Native Americans]; In the London crowd [a man in European garb, with a flag]; Londoner-Courtier-Masquer [a man in European garb]; Countess of Derby as Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra; portrait painter; Wingfield; court painter; Fertility ritual dance [a Native American man dressed in foliage]. Eight of the designs depict figures in European clothing; only three depict Native Americans, including one drawing of a woman dressed only in a deer's ears and antlers and strategically placed leaves.
• Six photographs depicting maquettes of sets designed by Carl Toms. Some include a female figure, possibly Pocahontas. All are labeled as scenes from Act I: scene 1, riverside; scene 2, Indian village; scene 3, the bivovac [sic]; scene 4, [location unspecified; the interior of a Native American house]; scene 5, Smith's hut; scenes 6 and 9, outside the palisades.

Alternative Title

Nelle Fisher collection. Graphics.

Subjects

• Set design drawings
• Costume design drawings
• Pocahontas, -1617

Genre/Form

• Set design drawings.
• Costume design drawings.

Note

• Accompanied by a note reading: For Miss Nellie [sic] in America from the artist.
• Includes a title page with an ink drawing, reading: Pocahontas. Told by Kermit Goell. Drawn by Pearl Binder.

Source (note)

• Nelle Fisher,

Biography (note)

• Nelle Fisher, the former owner of this collection, was the choreographer for Pocahontas, a musical in two acts with music, lyrics, and book by Kermit Goell, based on his children's novel of the same title. It was produced by Stephen Mitchell and Michael Manuel, and directed by Michael Manuel, with scenery by Carl Toms and costumes by Pearl Binder. Anita Gillette, an American, played the title role. It opened at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, on Oct. 8, 1963, under the title The princess Pocahontas, and played in Leeds and Liverpool prior to its London premiere at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre on Nov. 14, 1963. Poorly received, it lasted for twelve performances. The action took place both in the New World and the Old: in Native American villages around Jamestown, Virginia (depicted in the set designs in this collection, which are all drawn from Act I), and in the cosmopolitan city of London, where the sights enjoyed by Pocahontas included a masque by Ben Jonson.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Nelle Fisher collection. Graphics.

Call Number

*MGZGV 12-2324

OCLC

• 820732552
• 820732552

Title

Pocahontas [graphic].

Imprint

1963.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Nelle Fisher collection. Graphics.

Biography

Nelle Fisher, the former owner of this collection, was the choreographer for Pocahontas, a musical in two acts with music, lyrics, and book by Kermit Goell, based on his children's novel of the same title. It was produced by Stephen Mitchell and Michael Manuel, and directed by Michael Manuel, with scenery by Carl Toms and costumes by Pearl Binder. Anita Gillette, an American, played the title role. It opened at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, on Oct. 8, 1963, under the title The princess Pocahontas, and played in Leeds and Liverpool prior to its London premiere at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre on Nov. 14, 1963. Poorly received, it lasted for twelve performances. The action took place both in the New World and the Old: in Native American villages around Jamestown, Virginia (depicted in the set designs in this collection, which are all drawn from Act I), and in the cosmopolitan city of London, where the sights enjoyed by Pocahontas included a masque by Ben Jonson.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Source

Gift, Nelle Fisher, 1990.

Added Author

Binder, Pearl. Costume designer

Binder, Pearl. Illustrator

Toms, Carl. Designer

Goell, Kermit, 1915-1997. Associated name

Fisher, Nelle. Associated name

Fisher, Nelle. Donor

Added Title

Nelle Fisher collection. Graphics.

Found In:

Nelle Fisher collection.

Research Call Number

*MGZGV 12-2324