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Giōrgos Vakalo Papers
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Giōrgos Vakalo was a painter and a stage designer. He was born in Constantinople in 1902. He began his art studies in his native Greece and continued them in Paris. There, in the decades between the two World Wars, he established his reputation both as a painter and as a stage designer working in the theater of the Cartel, Copeau, Baty Dullin, Pitoeff and Jouvet and also of Michel Saint-Denis, all of them reformers of the theatre following the revolution in design created by Gordon Craig. Vakalo during this period represented France at many international scenographic exhibitions and for his services was awarded a Chavelier of the Legion of Honor. Returning to Greece on the outbreak of World War II he has since designed productions for the National Theatre both for the classic dramas and comedies and for Shakespeare, Molière, de Musset, Brecht, and other dramatists. His paintings - a combination of surrealism, abstraction, and a characteristic playfulness - have been shown widely in Europe and in the United States and are to be found in the collections of former president of Cyprus, Makarios, the Museum of the École d'Aubusson and in the Harvard Library. Also they can be found in private collections in France, Belgium, Switzerland, America (Boston, Texas, and New York) and Japan. In Greece, his paintings are in state and private collections, in collections of societies and in the public galleries of Athens, Thessalonikē, Rhodes, and Iōannina.
For a certain period, the illustration of books was one of his most important activities. He took part in artistic movements, as a founding member in the group "Stathmoi." In 1957, along with his wife Helenē and a team of artists, designers and theorists, Panagiōtēs Tetsēs and Phrantzēs Phrantziskakēs, he established the first School of Decorative Arts, the "Vakalo School of Art and Design," in Athens (Greece). Vakalo died in 1991.
Consists of papers by and relating to Giōrgos Vakalo, a Greek painter, stage designer, art critic, and writer. Included are hundreds of his sketches or drawings showing various stages of creation. The works date from the time of his education in Greece and Paris the 1920s, including over the course of his entire life until the time of his death.
There are black-and-white photographs of several theatrical plays or exhibitions that Vakalo prepared or participated. Also, there are a large number of newspaper clippings kept by Vakalo through the years regarding critiques of his works; exhibition catalogs, programs and invitations, as well as lists of his works and contracts with several theaters or other organizations.
Apart from Vakalo's own writings, the collection contains a selection of typed manuscripts and printed matter by others written about Vakalo. The authors include many friends of Vakalo, art critics, as well as college students.
Organized into the following series and subseries:
Gift of Helenē Vakalo to the Program in Hellenic Studies for the Princeton University Library.
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Part of this collection was originally processed in 2000. New material was acquired in 2011. The collection was revised, reprocessed, and completed by Kalliopi Balatsouka in 2011. Finding aid was written by Kalliopi Balatsouka in 2011. New photographic material was received in 2018, it was processed, described, and arranged in new Series 8, which was added to the Finding Aid written by Kalliopi Balatsouka in March 2022.
Nothing was removed from the collection.
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Collection Inventory
This series contains works of art created by Giōrgos Vakalo in a variety of media (ink, pencil, watercolor, conté crayon, engravings) and on a variety of supports (paper, carton, canvas) dating from the time of his education in Greece and Paris the 1920s, including works rendered over the course of his entire life until his death in 1991. Artwork is comprised mainly of loose, single sheets of paper, and bound sketchbooks.
This series has been arranged thematically as Vakalo maintained them, which roughly follows a chronological order with undated matter at the end of the series.
Physical Description4 boxes
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Only two works dated.
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Includes an enclosure (42 x 31cm.) consisting of loose drawings in pen, ink, charcoal, and one on camvas. The enclosure is titled "Schedia Synthemena." There are studies mainly of hands and female portraits. Most of the works are undated.
Physical Description1 folder
Contains loose sketches in Indian ink and pencil.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of pencil drawings of several landscapes of Greece.
Physical Description1 folder
Most of the drawings are undated but they are kept in the same folder that Vakalo used.
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Consists of sketches in pencil of Pharaonic Egyptian costumes mostly on transparencies. There are also sketches and drawings of the scene and a printed list of the actors of the play.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes notes and sketches of costumes and decors, as well as other printed documentation for the play performed at the Greek National Opera, Athens (Greece).
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of sketches of the scene of the play performed at the Greek National Opera, Athens (Greece).
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of two plans of the scene in pencil.
Physical Description1 folder
Contains a notebook and loose drawings in Indian ink, pencil, and watercolor.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes Metra Skēnēs "Metropolitan"; sketches of furniture and costumes on paper and transparencies in pencil.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of sketches in pencil and watercolor prepared for the play Ta idia kai ta idia. A handwritten note on the discarded envelope stated: "This is the last work done by George." Also included is a playbill of the same play, dated 1976-1977.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of pencil and ink drawings of Greek theaters, including the stage and the plan of the National Theater; the orchestra and the stage of the ancinet theater of Epidaurus; a plan of Epidaurus prepared for the play Acharneis [The Acharnians] in pencil and watercolor; the Theater "Olympia" National Lyric Stage; the Theater of Herodes Atticus; the stage of the play Eirēnē [ Peace] in pencil and watercolor; and a photocopy of the stage of the National Theater of Northern Greece.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of a sketchbook (50 x 35 cm.) containing drawings prepared by Vakalo for his classes; and some loose sketches.
Physical Description2 folders
Includes black-and-white photographs of drawings and artifacts; sketches of chairs, tables, and salon lamps in pencil, watercolor, and conté crayon on paper or transparencies.
Physical Description1 folder
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Includes two drawings and sketches on transparent vellum in black ink and watercolor.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of two sketchbooks (15 x 22 cm and 17 x 24 cm) containing sketches in pencil and conté crayon. One of them also contains a photo collage and collage of photocopies and magazines.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes sketches in Indian ink and pencil. One of the sketchbooks (25 x 18 c.m.) mainly consists of studies of female nude and bears the title "Schedia G. Vakalo me sinikē melani" [Sketches of G. Vakalo in Indian ink].
Physical Description1 folder
Includes sketches of costumes in pencil and watercolor of ancient Greek gods, heroes, armors, and jewellery; traditional Greek costumes; 18th and 19th centuries costumes in pencil and conté caryon on paper and transparencies.
Physical Description6 folders
1 folder
Includes sketches and drawings in pencil and watercolor on paper and transparencies. Autograph note on the envelope where they were kept reads: "Decorative Motifs Princeton."
Physical Description1 folder
Includes loose sketches of interior and exterior of houses in the island of Spetsai, in pencil and watercolor on paper.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes pencil drawings on paper of Greek mythology and Byzantine history, as well as hundreds of sketches or drawings in ink, pencil, or watercolor on transparencies and some on paper of 18th-19th centuries costumes, furniture, buildings, portraits, animals, and floral themes. There is also printed documentation material.
Physical Description8 folders
Includes nine oversize sheets of twelve images.
Physical Description1 folder
This series consists of personal and professional correspondence mainly received by Giōrgos and his wife, Helenē Vakalo, although there are letters written by them, as well as letters between others. Correspondents included are Nora Anagnōstakē, Karellē Zōe, Thrasos Kastanakēs, Irene Zmurkevych (Loyola University of Los Angeles), and Harvard College Library.
This series has been arranged alphabetically by correspondent or organization, with unidentified or miscellaneous letters at the end of the series. Correspondents with only one letter are grouped together in a general folder at the beginning of the series.
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Includes a typed manuscript of a proposal for a book on "The Theater of Aristophanēs, an Illustrated Study of Sets and Costumes of his Eleven Known Plays" by Giōrgos Vakalo, presented by Irene Zmurkevych in January 1975.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence with Irene Zmurkevych (Office of Cultural Affairs).
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Includes correspondence with Ēlias Venezēs and sketches of the stage for the play Archontochōriatēs.
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Consists of miscellaneous and unidentified incoming letters, including poems and paintings from Vakalo's friends or acquaintances, as well an official letter from the Mayor of Athens accompanied with an award to Vakalo (the award has been transferred to oversize Box 21, folder 5).
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of autograph and typed manuscript drafts of Vakalo's writings, including notes, talks, articles, interviews, TV or radio productions. There are also writings by others regarding Vakalo's work.
This series has been arranged by subject.
Physical Description2 boxes
This subseries consists of writings by Vakalo, both in Greek and French, regarding the theater, painting, colors in painting, and stage design.
This subseries has been arranged roughly choronologically by first date. The undated material has been placed at the end of the subseries.
Physical Description1 box
Includes two bound and one unbound notebooks with collage designs, as well as loose pages in French and some in Greek on theater and colors in painting.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes one notebook written in French. The inner pages bear signatures by visitors to a Vakalo's exhibition dated Novemebr 20-26, 1946.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph manuscript drafts of miscellaneous notes on theater. There is also a carbon typescript of Vakalo's response on an article regarding his work published in the Greek newspaper Kathēmerinē (July 2, 1943); typescript notes regarding the perspective in art and the technique of the stamped hand art products; autograph notes regarding Vakalo's exhibition at the gallery "Hōra" titled: "Mia mera me psaria, me zōa, me poulia" [One Day with Fish, Animals, and Birds].
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts in Greek and one in French regarding the stage design; drafts of the article: "Henas Prōtoporos tou Parisinou Theatrou: Charles Dullin" [A Pioneer of the parisian Theater: Charles Dullin] and "Charles Dullin pionnier du théâtre parisien"; a typescript titled "Hē Skēnographia kai to Chrōma" [Stage Design and Color], and a galley proof of "Ho skēnographos" [The Stage Designer].
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts in Greek.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts of Vakalo's writings on stage design which eventually published in book form by the publishing house Kedros in 1979. There is also the first draft and a notebook titled: "Schediagramma mias historias tēs skēnographias" [A Draft of the History of Stage Design].
Physical Description3 folders
Autograph manuscript drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes several autograph and typed manuscript drafts of biographical information about Giōrgos Vakalo written by him or others in Greek, English, and French. There is also a galley proof of Who's Who in the World (vol. 3).
Physical Description1 folder
This subseries consists of writings, both in French and Greek, by other people on Vakalo's artwork, research papers, as well as articles on art and a typescript of Lorka's play.
This subseries has been arranged chronologically by first date with undated material at the end of the subseries.
Physical Description2 boxes
Includes typescripts of articles by Jacques Copeau "Le devotion a l'art dramatique" and Charles Dullin "De "L'atelier" à "La cite"; and a printed article by Takēs Sinopoulos, "Hē poiēsē stē zōgraphikē," Zygos, 65 (April 1961).
Physical Description1 folder
Includes the program of the International Festival of the Spectacle with a printed address by Kōstas Kitsikēs; an abstract of the talk by Joffre Dumazedier; and a typescript of the talk by Angelos Terzakēs.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of typed manuscripts of reviews regarding Vakalo's painting and stage design. Included is a typescript (11 pp.) by Chrysanthos Chrēstou, dated October 1996; a review of Helene Vakalo's book "Giōrgos Vakalo: To thelgētro tēs graphēs." Athens: Gallery Nees Morphes, 1994; an autograph draft by Helenē Vakalo; and a talk by K. Malamos.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes bound typescripts of research papers on Vakalo's work by college students.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes an unsigned typescript in Greek of Federico Garcia Lorca's play.
Physical Description1 folder
This series consists of photograph albums, loose black-and-white photographs, slides, and negatives of several theatrical plays or exhibitions that Vakalo prepared or participated.
This series has been arranged by subject and in a chronological or alphabetical order within each subject.
Physical Description9 boxes
This subseries has been arranged roughly in a chonological order by the first date.
This subseries consists of photograph albums of Vakalo's several works for theatrical plays.
Physical Description6 boxes
Consists of (1) photograph album (28 x 39 cm.) of black-and-white photographs; there are also newspaper clippings attached on a few leaves.
Physical Description1 box
Consists of (1) photograph album (46 x 38 cm) of black-and-white photographs titled "Phōtographies" Skēnika, G. Vakalo No. III" ["Photographs" Stage Designs, G. Vakalo No. 3].
Physical Description1 box
Consists of (1) photograph album (46 x 42 cm.) titled "Phōtographies skēnikōn, Ar. 2, Giōrgou Vakalo" [Photographs of Stage Designs by Giōrgos Vakalo No. 2] containing black-and-white photographs of costumes and stage designs of several plays, including Sphēkes [Wasps], Eirēnē [Peace], Tsaros Xylourgos [Tsar and Carpenter], Mary Stuart, Salomē, L'Etourdi, Ho vasilias pethainei [King Dies], Daimonismenoi [The Possessed], Bacchai, Romeo and Juliet; photographs of Vakalo with Kyvelē, Alexēs Solomos, and other actors. Album is bound in paper with handwritten title on cover and handwritten captions in Greek and some in French in pen.
Physical Description1 box
Includes a photograph album (25 x 34.5 cm) of black-and white photographs of Vakalo's works.
Physical Description1 box
Includes a photograph album (42 x 37 cm.) titled "Phōtographeiai skēnikōn, No. 1, Giōrgou Vakalo" [Photographs of Stage Designs by Giōrgos Vakalo] containing black-and-white photographs of costumes and stage designs of several classic Greek plays, including Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, Sphēkes [Wasps], Vatrachoi [Frogs], Augoustiatiko Phengari [August Moon]. There are also photographs of Vakalo with actors of the plays. The album is bound in paper with handwritten title on cover and handwritten captions in pen and pencil in Greek and some in French.
Physical Description1 box
Contains silver gelatin photographs depicting ancient architectural fragments and painting of ancient Greek vases; handwritten captions on boards in French.
Physical Description1 folder
This subseries has been arranged into two supgroups: both have been arranged in an alphabetical order by title of the play or the exhibition with unidentified or miscellaneous material at the end of each subgroup.
This subseries consists of photographs, postcards, and slides
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Consists of (5) diptychs and (1) loose leaf of silver gelatin prints composed in collage of the theatric production Iliad.
Physical Description1 folder
Included also are (4) photographic negatives.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of color photographs of a play rehearsal at the ancient theater of Epidaurus (Greece). There are also silver gelatin prints of the stage of the theater and a few of the archaeological site.
Physical Description1 folder
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Consists of silver gelatin prints of Vakalo's paintings, including some of the series Nepheles [Clouds] (1979); The Frogs; The Bal of Thieves; and Macbeth. Most of the photographs are undated.
Physical Description1 folder
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Consists of photographs and postcards (National Theater of Greece).
Physical Description1 folder
Includes a diptych of black-and-white photographs of the play The Comedie of Errors with hanwritten captions in pen and pencil in Greek. The play was presented at the National Theater of Athens. There are also seven loose photographs of the same play.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of (1) diptych, (1) triptych, and (1) polyptych composed in collage of silver gelatin prints and newspaper clippings of the above plays presented at the National Theater of Athens. Three is also a drawing of a stage design in ink.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes silver gelatin prints of portraits and artworks of foreign artists.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes silver gelatin prints of works of art in geometric form. There are also two exhibition catalogs.
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Consists of black-and-white photographs of the exhibition "Phantastika Topia" that took place at the gallery Nees Morphes in Athens (Greece), November 15-29, 1982.
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Consists of silver gelatin prints of portraits; every-day life scenes in Greece and abroad; a view of the island of Mykonos (Greece); a view of the port of Ciotat; and some views of nature. There are also a few color photographs.
Physical Description1 folder
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Consists of black-and-white photographs of Vakalo's last exhibition on Cyprus. Autograph note on the discarded folder explained that "this is the beginning for the animals, fish, and birds."
Physical Description1 folder
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Includes color slides and negatives of Vakalo's works, as well as a few miscellaneous or unidentified.
This subseries has been arranged in a chronological order with the undated matter at the end of the subseries.
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This series consists of autograph and typed manuscripts relating to Vakalo's exhibitions; catalogs, programs, and invitations of one-man or group exhibitions that Vakalo prepared or participated; correspondence; and some printed material.
This series has been arranged by subject.
Physical Description2 boxes
This subseries consists of literature regarding Vakalo's exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including correspondence, lists of Vakalo's works, autograph notes, invitations, and programs of the exhibitions.
This subseries has been arranged in a chronological order.
Physical Description1 box
Includes an invitation and an autograph manuscript article by Vakalo titled "Machinerie et machinistes du theatre."
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of correspondence with the Cyprus Hilton regarding arragements for the exhibition; with the Minister of Educational Affairs, Kōnstantinos Spyridakis; and letters Helenē Vakalo exhanged with Phrixos Vrachos. There are also printed and handwritten price lists of Vakalo's artworks, as well as catalogs and invitations for the opening of the exhibition.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes a notebook with congratulation notes on the exhibition at the Gallery Hōra. There is also a letter from Ionel Janu and Paul Bernat.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes a typescript list with handwritten notes of Vakalo's artworks that were sold during the exhibition at the French Institute of Thessalonikē. There is also a price list of his exhibition at the Athens College (1972) and one from gallery Argō.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of literature regarding Vakalo's exhibition in Los Angeles presented at Malone Gallery in cooperation with the Loyola Marymount University (January 28-March 1, 1974), including the program of the exhibition; a printed letter by Nora Anagnōstakē to Helenē Vakalo published in Zygos, 39 (Feb. 1974); an issue of the Loyola Marymount University newspaper, Lion and Gryphon, 8/3 (Feb. 1974); and an issue of El Camino Real, 31 (Feb. 1974). There is also the printed program of the exhibition The Set and Costume Designs of G. Vakalo presented by the University of California, Los Angeles in cooperation with the Malone Gallery.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes invitations and programs of the exhibition; price lists of artworks; and letters from Alekos Phasianos, Anna Synodinou, Giōrgos Misaēlidēs, and Marilena Liakopoulou. There are also autograph manuscript notes by Vakalo regarding the exhibition.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes invoices and a typescript list of prices of Vakalo's paintings and tapestry works presented at the gallery Nees Morphes in Athens (Greece).
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of a prinetd invitation and a press release; a short biographical note by Chrysanthos Chrēstou and Helenē Vakalo; a price list of Vakalo's artworks; handwritten notes regarding the cost of the book; an invoice; and color photographs of sold artworks.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of clippings of several Greek newspapers, including Eleutheros Typos, Ta Nea, Augē, Eleutherotypia, and Rizospastēs regarding a retrospective exhibition of Vakalo's costumes and stage designs presented at the new building of Vakalo School in Athens. There are also (2) black-and-white photographs.
Physical Description1 folder
This subseries consists of catalogs both of Vakalo's one-man exhibitions and group exhibitions.
This series has been arranged by subject and in a chronological order within each folder.
Physical Description2 boxes
Includes exhibition catalogs of Vakalo's one-man exhibitions in Athens, Thessalonikē, Larisa, Volos, and other cities in Greece, as well as abroad, inluding Cyprus and the United States (Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles). There are also handwritten lists of the art works presented at the exhibitions.
Physical Description2 folders
Consists of exhibition catalogs and invitations (in Greek, English, and French) from several exhibitions that Vakalo participated in Greece, the United States, and Jerusalem.
Physical Description4 folders
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This series consists of original documents, including contracts with theaters, Vakalo's identification cards, documents regarding his pension, accords, and invoices.
This series has been arranged in a chronological order by the first date.
Physical Description1 box
Consists of original contracts with theaters in Paris, the Greek National Opera, and the National Theater of Greece.
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Includes autograph and typed manuscripts of agreements for the cast of characters for the plays "Sphēkes" [Wasps] and "Eirēnē," [Peace], as well as a budget for "Sphēkes."
Physical Description1 folder
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This series consists of magazines, playbills, and clippings of several Greek and foreign newspapers.
This series has been arranged by subject.
Physical Description5 boxes
This subseries consists of Greek, French, and German magazines, as well as one Greek calendar.
This subseries has been arranged alphabetically by title. At the end of the subseries has been added a calendar.
Physical Description1 box
Includes the following issues: 53 (Feb. 1962); 54 (March 1962); 55 (April 1962); 56 (May-June 1962); 57 (June-July 1962); 58 (July-Aug. 1962); 59 (1962); 60 (1962); 61 (1962); 62 (Jan. 1963); 63 (Feb. 1963); 64 (March 1963).
Physical Description1 folder
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Includes an issue of the regular edition of Vakalo School; the brochure of the School; and some clippings of other magazines regarding the School.
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Consists of the following issues: 7 (Jan.-Feb. 1963); 22 (Jylu-Aug. 1965); 29-30 (June-Sept. 1967).
Physical Description1 folder
Includes a Greek calendar published by the Emporikē Trapeza tēs Hellados [Commercial Bank of Greece] including drawings of several Greek artists. The calendar has been transferred to oversize Box 21 (folder 4).
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of the following isuues: 56-57 (July-Aug. 1960); 64 (March 1961); 6 (Jan.-Feb. 1974); 55 (Sept.-Oct. 1982).
Physical Description1 folder
This subseries contains Greek playbills and one German.
This subseries has been arranged alphabetically by title.
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This series consists of printed documentation: catalogs, newspaper and magazine clippings, posters, and other ephemera used by Vakalo as research sources for his work.
This subseries has been arranged by subject and roughly in a chronoligical order by first date.
Physical Description2 boxes
Includes copies and originals of covers of the French magazine La vraie mode.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes exhibition catalogs in Greek, English, and French pertaining to geometric shapes used as documentation for Vakalo's art. There is also an issue of Technika Chronika, 10 (1971) (monthly edition of the Chamber of Commerce of Greece).
Physical Description1 folder
Included also is a playbill of Theatre Crafts, March/April 1967.
Physical Description1 folder
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Consists of the First Annual Report (1945) of the the Arts Council of Great Britain; a booklet of the Philarmonic Hall at Lincloln Center; a tourist guide of Holland; and posters of exhibitions.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of Greek newspaper and magazine clippings of theater performance reviews for plays that Vakalo prepared the costumes and the stage designs, including Kathēmerinē; Ta Nea; Apogeumatinē; Augē; Akropolis; Athēnaikē; Athēnaika Nea; Eleutheria; Vēma; Anexartētos Typos; Anexartēsia; Hē Vradynē; Kathēmerina Nea; Nea Hestia; Eikones; Epitheorēsē Technēs; Ethnos; Anendotos; Allagē; Mesēmvrinē; Neologos Patrōn; Empros; Hēmera; Asyrmatos; Typos; Paraskēnia; Eleutheron Vēma; Peiraika Nea; Makedonia Thessalonikēs; Drasis Thessalonikēs; Eleutheros Laos Thessalonikēs; and Ethnikos Kēryx. There are also reviews of one-man or group exhibitions in which Vakalo participated. Also included are clippings of reviews on several other topics that were of Vakalo's interest.
This subseries has been arranged roughly in a chronological order by the first date.
Physical Description4 boxes
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Includes clippings of theatrical performance reviews for several plays, including Ho Tsaros Lenin [Czar Lenin]; Auto pou xerei kathe gynaika [What Every Woman Knows]; Hena tragoudi mia zōe [A Song A Life]; Louiza Miller; To tragoudi tēs kounias [The Song of the Swing]; Ioulios Kaisaras [Julius Cesar]; and Ho emporos tēs Venetias [The Merchant of Venice].
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of clippings of reviews of group or one-man exhibitions that Vakalo participated either in Greece or abroad.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes reviews of the following plays: Ho choros tōn lōpodytōn; Ta kapritsia tēs Mariannas; Ho archontochōriatēs [The Gentleman]; and Ho kyklos me tēn kimōlia [The Caucasian Chalk Circle].
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Inlcudes articles regarding several Greek writers, poets, or atrists published mainly in Greek newspapers and some in French and English. There are also clippings regarding the publication on Greek tobacco (Ta hellēnika kapna).
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Includes reviews of the following plays: Archontochōriatēs; Kymvelinos; Phouente Ovechouna; Romeo and Juliet; Polemos kai eirēnē; Hē zōe einai oneiro; and Ho vyssinokēpos.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes reviews of the following plays: Ho erōtas tōn syntagmatarchōn; Ho vasilias pethainei; Ollandeza; Anoixiatiko romantso; Matōmenos gamos; Sevasmios politikos; Hoi maurolykoi; and Dona Rozita.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of reviews of plays, including Romansero; Paramythi chōris onoma; To kalokairi tēs 17ēs kouklas; and Hē kōmōdia tōn parexegēseōn.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes reviews of several theatrical plays or operas, including Ho kalos anthrōpos tou Se Tsouan; Ho Biterman kai hoi emprēstes; Iakōvos ē hē hypotagē; Hē kōmōdia tōn parexēgēseōn; Hē dynamis tou peprōmenou; To apogeuma tēs agapēs; Hē Tanagraia kai hē Magissa; Vertheros; Hodos eukairias; Makbeth; Stravotimonies; and Augoustiatiko Phengari.
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Includes reviews of plays, including Orestēs; Eirēnē; Ekklēsiazousai; Vatrachoi; Kyklōps; Sphēkes; The Knights; Lysistrata; Bacchai; Nepheles; and Hotan hoi Atreides.
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Inlcudes clippings of reviews of the plays: Ho matōmenos gamos; Mana Kouragio; Tessa; Ho erōtas tōn tessarōn syntagmatarchōn; Ho kalos anthrōpos tou Se Tsouan; Ho archēgos; Ho vasilias pethainei; Hē dolophonia tou Mara; Hē hēdonē tēs timiotētos; Miss Ba; Beckett; and Ho phournarēs.
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Consists of reviews of the plays: Hoi daimonismenoi; Hē nychta tēs Ingouana; Ho asyllogistos; and Mary Stuart. There are also reviews of plays presented at the National Theater of Thessalonikē, including Ho Asyllogistos; Mary Stuart; Dōdekatē nychta, Ho kalos anthrōpos tou Se-Tsouan; and Hē ventalia tēs laidēs Windermere at the Theatre Pallas in Thessalonikē.
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Includes reviews of Hē kōmōdia tōn parexēgēseōn; Ho Biterman kai hoi emprēstes; Iakōvos ē hē hypotagē; Tsaros kai xylourgos; Angelikē; and The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat.
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Includes reviews of Vakalo's exhibition at the Cultural Center Hōra in Athens (Greece).
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Includes reviews of the exhibition presented at the Loyola Marymount University of Los Angeles.
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Includes reviews of Vakalo's exhibition at the gallery Hōra in Athens, Greece. The exhibition had four thematic units.
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This series consists of loose color and black-and-white photographs and photo- collages, slides and photographic negatives of Giōrgos Vakalo personal and professional life; art exhibitions that Vakalo prepared or participated; art works; and theatrical plays. Most of the photographs bear handwritten explanatory notes in pen by Vakalo's daughter-in-law, Kathleen Vakalo. Also, during the organization process of this new material, it was decided to keep the original envelopes where the photographs were stored and transferred to Special Collections, as they bear handwritten notes by Kathleen Vakalo that might be useful sources for the researchers.
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Consists of black-and-white portrait photographs of Giōrgos Vakalo, one oversize (see folder 1, D-Middle 73, drawer 3) and photographs of Vakalo with his artworks in his Athens home; There are also included a photograph of a sketch of Vakalo's portrait by the artist Prasinos; two color slides of Vakalo; and a black-and-white photograph of Vakalo family (Giōrgos, Helenē, and their son Manos).
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Consists of photographs of Vakalo in his homes in Athens and Eretria. According to a handwritten note on the envelope they were kept "some of the shots in Athens home were taken by his daughter-in-law and some by his son.
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Consists of black-and-white photographs depicting Giōrgos Vakalo along with many famous Greek actors and actresses, directors, students at his School, the French actors Jean-Louis Barrault and Gérard Philipe, as well as images of a rehearsal of a theatrical play in Epidaurus. There is also an image of Giōrgos and Helenē Vakalo with the famous Greek composer Manos Chatzidakēs and the actor Dionysios Papagiannopoulos.
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Consists of photographs depicting Giōrgos Vakalo with several of his students, friends, and colleagues, including Takēs Sinopoulos, Ioulia Iatridou, Helenē Chatzēargyrē, Voula Zoumpoulakē, Stathēs Logothetēs, Zoē Skiadaresē, Tatiana Miliex, Alexandros Xydēs, Arēs Kōnstantinidēs, and Panagiōtēs Tetsēs. There are also images of Giōrgos and Helenē Vakalo with friends at their home in Eretria and a few photgraphs of Vakalo with other unidentified people.
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Consists of (1) black-and-white photograph of the first rehearsal at Marika Kotopoulē's cast, inscribed and signed by several Greek actors and actresses pictured in the image, including Marika Kotopoulē, Dēmētrēs Myrat, Chrēstos Tsaganeas, Vasilēs Logothetidēs, Rita Myrat, Helenē Chalkousē, and Giannoulēs Sarantidēs. There is also (1) portrait photograph of the French theatre director Jacques Copeau signed by him.
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Consists of a black-and-white photograph of the two Greek poets walking together down a street in Piraeus.
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Consists of color photographs of an exhibition at home of the painter Spyros Vasileiou in Eretria. Giōrgos Vakalo's art works also included in this exhibition. Helenē Vakalo is pictured with Alekos Phasianos, Spyros Vasileiou and other friends. There are also included black-and-white photographs of the opening of a Vakalo's art exhibition in Thessalonikē (undated); and images of other art exhibitions with Giōrgos Vakalo art works, and an art event where Giōrgos and Helenē Vakalo were also present along with poets and theater people.
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Consists of black-and-white photographs of the opening of Vakalo's exhibition, where Vakalo is pictured with several Greek actors and actresses such as D̲inos Ēliopoulos, Smaroula Gioulē, Vasilēs Diamantopoulos
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Consists of black-and-white photographs of and art exhibition in Cyprus depicting Vakalo with Archbishop Makarios.
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Consists of photographs of Helenē Vakalo with partners and students of the Vakalo School in Athens, as well as images of several events there.
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Consists of black-and-white photographs of Vakalo abstract waterocols by the photographer Makēs Skiadaresēs.
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Consists of a selection of photographs of Vakalo artworks that were presented in different art exhibitons in Thessalonikē and in Cyprus.
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This file group consists of color slides of Vakalo paintings of several periods of his work.
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These files contain several color slides of Vakalo artworks; only five of them dated 1958-1960.
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These files contain photogrpahic negatives of Vakalo's several paintings, people, stage designs, and costumes for several plays, such as Lycistratē (Epidauros), Sphinges (Les gueppes), Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah, Vatrachoi (Frogs) (Epidauros), Iliad, Eirēnē (Peace), Thesmophoriazousai, Hē anthismenē amygdalia, and the Comedy of Errors
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