Physical description: CDF2-6COSTUMES: Mustard colored wool body suit with red top and blue yarn accents, black wool body suit with red yarn accents (designed by Mary Outten), mustard and red pill box hat (designed by Merce)FIRST PERFORMANCE: Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina; August 20, 1948 FIRST NEW YORK PERFORMANCE: City Center Theater; December 18, 1949CAST: Merce CunninghamMUSIC: Erik Satie; from Le Piege de Meduse
Collections costumes for The Monkey Dances
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- Title
- costumes for The Monkey Dances
- Artist
- Merce Cunningham, Mary Outten
- Date
- 1948
- Dimensions
- see element description
- Materials
- Wool body suits, pill box hat
- Location
- Not on view
Object Details
- Accession Number
- 2011.130.1-.3
- Physical Description
- CDF2-6COSTUMES: Mustard colored wool body suit with red top and blue yarn accents, black wool body suit with red yarn accents (designed by Mary Outten), mustard and red pill box hat (designed by Merce)FIRST PERFORMANCE: Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina; August 20, 1948 FIRST NEW YORK PERFORMANCE: City Center Theater; December 18, 1949CAST: Merce CunninghamMUSIC: Erik Satie; from Le Piege de Meduse
- Credit Line
- Walker Art Center, Merce Cunningham Dance Company Collection,Gift of Jay F. Ecklund, the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation, Agnes Gund, Russell Cowles and Josine Peters, the Hayes Fund of HRK Foundation, Dorothy Lichtenstein, MAHADH Fund of HRK Foundation, Goodale Family Foundation, Marion Stroud Swingle, David Teiger, Kathleen Fluegel, Barbara G. Pine, and the T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2011
- Object Copyright
- Copyright retained by the artist