Book, Theater - Cover of "Told in A Chinese Garden and Other Plays For Outdoors and Indoors" by Constance Grenelle Wilcox
1918 – 1920 (Date manufactured/created)
Paper
11 in. H
X
8 1/2 in. W
Photocopy of a draft for the cover for "Told in A Chinese Garden and Other Plays For Outdoors and Indoors" by Constance Grenelle Wilcox. The writing is in black, bamboo-esque font on a yellow background. The cover features a hand drawn image of a man in a Chinese-style hat (see 2009.5 inc) in a field/garden between two towers. Madison was home to the country's earliest summer theater. In 1918, Constance Grenelle Wilcox and Alice B. Keating founded the Woodland Garden Plays. The first performances were held in the woods behind the Wilcox home on Island Avenue, but later moved into an old barn on the property, called the "Playbarn". The plays were popular fundraisers for charitable causes including post WWI relief, the Madison Historical Society and the preservation of the Lee Academy. See the printed version of this cover at 2022.010.016 and the book itself at B2023.007
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