Research Catalog

Title

Charles Payne collection.

Author

Payne, Charles

Publication

1929-1983, bulk 1940-1974.

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Avedon, Richard
• Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980
• Duncan, Kenn
• Fehl, Fred
• Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955
• Swope, Martha

Description

38.40 linear feet (51 boxes, 1 oversize folder)

Summary

The Charles Payne collection spans over five decades of materials documenting the American Ballet Theatre with items such as photographs, clippings and articles, performance programs, and costume and set designs. Payne occupied various administrative roles throughout his nearly 40 year career with the company and compiled the contents of this collection. He also collected photographs of a small number of American and European dance companies. The majority of the collection is photographs of American Ballet Theatre's reportoire dating back to its predecessor, the Mordkin Ballet, in the late 1930s to the Ballet Theatre's formation in 1940 and its subsequent activities for more than thirty years thereafter.

Subjects

• Kriza, John
• Printed ephemera
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994
• Costume design > 20th century
• Chase, Lucia, 1897-1986
• Ballet companies > Photographs
• Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948-
• De Mille, Agnes
• Ballet > 20th century
• Dance
• Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004
• Negatives (photographs)
• Kaye, Nora, 1920-1987
• Performing arts
• American Ballet Theatre
• Promotional material
• Tudor, Antony, 1908-1987
• Fracci, Carla
• Photographic prints
• Bruhn, Erik, 1928-1986
• Robbins, Jerome
• Smith, Oliver Lemuel, 1918-1994
• Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019
• Serrano, Lupe

Genre/Form

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Negatives (photographs)
• Photographic prints.
• Printed ephemera.
• Promotional material.

Access (note)

• Some photographs are marked on their verso as strictly prohibited from being copied or exhibited as indicated by the photographer's stamp. Many of these prints are proofs or unretouched photographs.

Source (note)

• The collection was donated in several installments by Charles Payne from the 1970s through the 1990s and then by his estate after his death in 1994.

Call Number

*MGZEB 18-2792

OCLC

1079420564

Author

Payne, Charles, creator.

Title

Charles Payne collection.

Production

1929-1983, bulk 1940-1974.

Restricted Access

Some photographs are marked on their verso as strictly prohibited from being copied or exhibited as indicated by the photographer's stamp. Many of these prints are proofs or unretouched photographs.

Source

The collection was donated in several installments by Charles Payne from the 1970s through the 1990s and then by his estate after his death in 1994.

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Finding aid

Added Author

Avedon, Richard, photographer.

Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980, photographer.

Duncan, Kenn, photographer.

Fehl, Fred, photographer.

Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955, photographer.

Swope, Martha, photographer.

Research Call Number

*MGZEB 18-2792