Florine Stettheimer
Costume design (Euridice and the Snake, Two Tango Dancers, and St. Francis) for artist's ballet Orphée of the Quat-z-arts
c. 1912
Gouache, watercolor, metallic paint, and pencil on paper
Not on view
Stettheimer wrote the libretto and designed the costumes for this unrealized ballet inspired by the extravagant, festive annual balls first held in the 1890s at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris’s most prestigious art school. Elaborately constructed with shimmering beads, metallic fabric, and fur accents, these works depict the various characters that Georgette, the ballet’s main character, encounters during a procession along the Champs Élysées, the famous avenue in central Paris. Mirroring Stettheimer’s own life, Georgette’s journey is populated by artists and socialites. The artist also
included other, more fantastical, characters, including the nymph Eurydice, a medieval knight, and even a unicorn, creating a world both mythological and modern.
2020
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Florine Stettheimer
American, 1871–1944 57 works onlineBy “this thing,” Stettheimer meant New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, when its streets, parks, theaters, museums, parties, and personalities became the subjects of her paintings and poems.
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