Entertaining

Ivan Albright
There were no flowers tonight
1929
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Diane Arbus
Couple Kissing on Stage, N.Y.C.
1963
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

George Karger
Scene from Kiss Them For Me with Judy Holliday [at far right]
1945
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Alexandre Benois
Stage Design for ballet Le Rossignol
1914
gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Alexandre Benois
Stage Design for ballet Le Rossignol
1914
gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Claud Lovat Fraser
Stage Design for the Forest of Arden in As You Like It
ca. 1912
watercolor and ink on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Léon Bakst
Stage Design for La Tragédie de Salomé
1912
watercolor and gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Léon Bakst
Ballet Costume for the Count
in La Belle au Bois Dormant
1922
watercolor and gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Léon Bakst
Ballet Costume for Guard
in La Belle au Bois Dormant
1928
offset-lithograph
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Marion Place, Ohio
(Theaters Series)
1980
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Hiroshi Sugimoto
South Bay Drive-In, San Diego
(Theaters Series)
1993
gelatin silver print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Van Buren Drive-In, Riverside
(Theaters Series)
1993
gelatin silver print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Weegee
At the Palace Theater
ca. 1945
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Henry Monnier
Phénomènes
(series, Galerie Théâtrale)
ca. 1828
hand-colored lithograph
British Museum

Henry Monnier
Troupe ambulante
(series, Galerie Théâtrale)
ca. 1828
hand-colored lithograph
British Museum

Leo Rubinfien
At the School of the Moscow Art Theatre
2004
inkjet print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Adrian Wiszniewski
The Citizens
(Artistic Directors, Citizens Theatre, Glasgow)
1995
acrylic on canvas
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

On a Dolphin

No more in delightful chase through buoyant seas

Shall I toss up my throat from the depths, nor blow around

The ornamented beak of the ship, exulting

In the carved figure-head, my image. But the sea's

Glittering blue has thronged me out of the moist element:

I lie stretched out on a narrow space of dry land. 

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by John Heath-Stubbs and Carol A. Whiteside