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- Creator
- Berger, Adam
- Call number
- *T-Vim 2001-059
- Physical description
- 52 portraits (in 1 box), color, 48 x 64 cm; 52 portraits (in 1 box), color, 48 x 64 cm
- Preferred Citation
- Adam Berger portraits of performing arts personalities, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Billy Rose Theatre Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Adam Berger, artist. Consists of 52 portraits, in various medium including crayon, pastel, ink and wash, all identified on the back, most signed. The subjects, who were connected to avant garde theater in New York City in the main, are: Anthony Harvey (1), Al Carmines (3), Betty Williams (5), Robert Wilson (3), Lamar Alford (2), Richard Barr (5), his dog (1), Roger Morgan (3), Joseph Papp (1), John Guare (5), Tom Eyen (3), Ellen Stewart (3), Jean Claude van Italie (4), Joe Chaikin (3), Richard Foreman (1), Charles Ludlam (5), James Purdy (1) and Richard Flagg (3). Also includes one promotional poster.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Drawings: gift, Richard Hundley, 10/11/2001Key terms
Names
- Berger, Adam
- Alford, Lamar
- Barr, Richard
- Carmines, Al
- Chaikin, Joe
- Eyen, Tom
- Flagg, Richard
- Foreman, Richard, 1937-
- Guare, John
- Harvey, Anthony, 1931-
- Italie, Jean Claude van
- Ludlam, Charles
- Morgan, Roger, 1938-
- Papp, Joseph
- Purdy, James
- Stewart, Ellen, 1919-2011
- Williams, Betty
- Wilson, Robert, 1941-
Subjects
- Entertainers -- Portraits
- Experimental theater -- New York (State) -- New York
- Off Off-Broadway theater
- Off-Broadway theater
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Billy Rose Theatre DivisionNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor