Research Catalog
Ken Dewey collection
- Title
- Ken Dewey collection, 1943-1987 (bulk 1959-1972).
- Author
- Dewey, Ken.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 1 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 2 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 3 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 3 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 4 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 4 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 5 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 5 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 6 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 6 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 7 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 7 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 8 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 8 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 9 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 9 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 10 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 10 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 11 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 11 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 12 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 12 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 13 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 13 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 14 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 14 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 15 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 15 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 16 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 16 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 17 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 17 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 18 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 18 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 19 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 19 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 20 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-010 Box 20 | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- 32 linear feet (69 boxes, 2 tubes)
- Summary
- Ken Dewey (1934-1972) was a performance artist, playwright, director, and arts administrator who was active in the Happenings movement of the 1960s. The Ken Dewey collection contains project files, photographs and slides, writings and audio and visual recordings that represent Dewey's creative work; files that represent Dewey's work as an arts administrator at the American Cooperative Theatre, Action Theatre, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York State Commission on Cultural Resources, and the Planning Corporation of the Arts; material pertaining the exhibition Action Theatre: The Happenings of Ken Dewey, a posthumous retrospective curated by Barbara Moore at Franklin Furnace in 1987; and a small amount of personal files and art by other artists.
- Subjects
- Actor's Workshop (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Promptbooks
- Engravings
- Riley, Terry, 1935-
- Avant Garde Festival of New York
- Sheet music
- Photographs
- Planning Corporation of the Arts
- Moore, Barbara, 1936-
- Sound recordings
- Conceptual art
- Ono, Yōko
- Theater
- Actor's Workshop (San Francisco)
- Slides
- Video recordings
- Happenings (Art)
- Diaries
- Rabe, Folke, 1935-
- Kaprow, Allan
- New York (State) > Commission on Cultural Resources
- New York State Council on the Arts
- Clippings
- American Cooperative Theatre
- Arts, Modern > 20th century
- Drawings
- Performance art
- Scripts
- Action Theatre
- Posters
- Donner, Henrik Otto, 1939-
- Genre/Form
- Clippings.
- Diaries.
- Drawings.
- Engravings.
- Photographs.
- Posters.
- Promptbooks.
- Scripts.
- Sheet music.
- Slides.
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required. Inquiries regarding audio and video materials in the series may be directed to the Billy Rose Theatre Division (theatre@nypl.org). Audio/visual materials may be subject to preservation evaluation and migration prior to access.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Material may not be duplicated without written permission of the rights holder.
- Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 1991-010
- OCLC
- 847665674
- Author
- Dewey, Ken.
- Title
- Ken Dewey collection, 1943-1987 (bulk 1959-1972).
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required. Inquiries regarding audio and video materials in the series may be directed to the Billy Rose Theatre Division (theatre@nypl.org). Audio/visual materials may be subject to preservation evaluation and migration prior to access.
- Terms Of Use
- Material may not be duplicated without written permission of the rights holder.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Dewey, Kenneth/Selma Last Year Collection; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 1991-010