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Creator
Cracraft, Tom Adrian, d.1963
Call number
*T-Vim 2010-055
Physical description
3 boxes (60 drawings); 37 sketches; 17 blueprints; 2 ceramic tiles
Preferred Citation
Tom Adrian Cracraft designs, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Billy Rose Theatre Division
Access to materials
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Set designer Tom Adrian Cracraft designed settings for several Broadway plays in the 1930s and 1940s, and later for Hollywood, where he also served as head of the scenic art department at Columbia Pictures. Tom Adrian Cracraft died in Los Angeles in 1963 at the age of 58. His credits on Broadway include the revivals of The Petrified Forest (1943) and Goodbye Again (1943). Set designs for Broadway shows from 1932-1936, including color designs on illustration board, pencil designs, sketches, elevations and ground plans on tracing paper, and blueprints. The collection also includes 2 ceramic tiles, a cartoon by T.A. Cracraft, and a caricature of him by Betancourt.

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Location

Billy Rose Theatre Division
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor