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Heidi Vosseler and Charles Laskey in "Dreams"

Artist:
George Platt Lynes (American, East Orange, New Jersey 1907–1955 New York)
Date:
1935, printed ca. 1953
Medium:
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
33.5 x 26.5 cm. (13 3/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1986
Accession Number:
1986.1110.14
Rights and Reproduction:
© Estate of George Platt Lynes
Not on view
Inscription: printed on label affixed to mount, LC, recto: "HEIDI VOSSELER and CHARLES LASKEY in 'DREAMS' (Antheil -// Balanchine - Dérain) 1935"; in green ink, verso, C: "page 11"
Lincoln Kirstein

New-York Historical Society. "Dance in the City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet," April 30, 1999–August 15, 1999.

Specially printed by Lynes as part of a group of 54 prints for Kirstein's office. "Dreams" is an American Ballet Production, premiered March 5, 1935, a revival from Les Ballets, 1933, first produced at the Warburg estate in White Plains in 1934.

Timelines
The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.-present

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