Lucy Phelps Lampkin papers

id
3990
origination
Lampkin, Lucy
date statement
1920-1967
key date
1920
identifier (local_mss)
19847
org unit
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
call number
*MGZMD 208
b-number
b16766030
total components
78
total series
0
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N/A
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(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:04:55 UTC
updated
2026-06-25 15:07:55 UTC
status note
(missing)
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physdesc
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unitid
{"value"=>"*MGZMD 208", "type"=>"local_call"}
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unitdate
{"value"=>"1920-1967", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920/1967"}
date_inclusive_start
1920
date_inclusive_end
1967
keydate
1920
unittitle
{"value"=>"Lucy Phelps Lampkin papers"}
repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
abstract
{"value"=>"The Lucy Phelps Lampkin Papers contains newspaper articles, programs, letters, journals, photographs and a scrapbook relating to her career as a teacher in Athens, Georgia, where she directed the Lucy Lampkin School of the Dance and Related Arts, and to her year as director of the Dance Department, Sullins College, Bristol, Virginia (1938-1939). This collection includes material relating to Lucile Marsh and Ruth St. Denis."}
prefercite
{"value"=>"Lucy Phelps Lampkin papers, *MGZMD 208. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
origination
{"value"=>"Lampkin, Lucy", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p> Born October 6, 1903 in Athens, Georgia, Lucy Phelps Lampkin was educated there in a private elementary school, Lucy Cobb School (1909-1917) and in public high school (1917-1921). She attended Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia for two years (1923-1924) and then transferred to Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in order to study piano (1923-1924). She received her A.B. degree from the University of Georgia in 1928. From 1928-1930 she studied dance in New York. When she returned to Athens in 1928 she established her own teaching studio.</p> <p> Lucy Phelps Lampkin made an intensive study of all the art systems of the Dance at their source, having studied with Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Michel Fokine, Mary Wigman (Wigman Central Institute, Dresden) and with Elizabeth Duncan, sister of Isadora, in Europe. Further study included work at Columbia and New York University, as well as with Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Irma Duncan, Lucile and Agnes Marsh, Angel Cansino, and Ella Daganova. She also studied Dalcroze Eurhythmics, piano, dramatic art, poetry, costume design and history of art.</p> <p> Ms. Lampkin also researched the health and physical aspects of dance by work in Corrective Gymnastics at Central School of Hygiene and Physical Education, New York City, and by case study and observation at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. She did extensive research in sculpture and painting in relation to dance at a number of museums in America and in Europe.</p> <p> Lucy Lampkin has appeared as soloist with Lucile Marsh, who she assisted for three summer sessions at the University of Georgia, Denishawn House, NYC, and as a guest-artist of the Physical Therapy Department, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.</p> <p> After closing her studio in 1968, she retired from active teaching.</p> <p>Source: <ul> <li> <span class=\"title\">The Dance in Art</span> pamphlet found in scrapbook (Box 3, Folder 1)</li></ul></p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p> The Lucy Phelps Lampkin Papers contain newspaper articles, programs, letters, journals, photographs and a scrapbook relating to her career as a teacher in Athens, Georgia, where she directed the Lucy Lampkin School of the Dance and Related Arts, and to her year as director of the Dance Department, Sullins College, Bristol, Virginia (1938-1939). This collection includes material relating to Lucile Marsh and Ruth St. Denis.</p> <p> With the exception of a high school report card and some correspondence, very little personal and family papers exist in this collection.</p>"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p> The Lucy Phelps Lampkin Papers were donated to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division in 1984 by Virginia Christ-Janer.</p>"}
userestrict
{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division.</p>"}
arrangement
{"value"=>"Alphabetical"}
relatedmaterial
{"value"=>"<p>Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts</p>"}
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Thea Constantine; Machine-readable finding aid created by Thea Constantine.</p>"}
extent_statement
2 linear feet (4 boxes)
date_start
1920
date_end
1967

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