Lee Simonson
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Lee Simonson (June 26, 1888, New York City – January 23, 1967, Yonkers) was an American architect painter, stage setting designer.
He acted as a stage set designer for the Washington Square Players (1915–1917). When it became the Theatre Guild in 1919, he became a stage setting staff of the theater. He graduated from Harvard College in 1909.[1]
- “Skyscrapers for Art Museums” The American Mercury, August 1927, pages 399-404
- "Minor Prophecies" New York, Harcourt and Brace, 1927[2]
- "The Stage Is Set", New York, Dover Publications, 1932[3]
- (with Theodore Komisarjevsky): "Settings and Costumes of the Modern Stage" New York Studio Productions, 1933[4]
- Isaacs, Edith J.R., editor: "Architecture for the New Theater" Lee Simonson: "Theater Planning" New York Theater Arts, 1935[5]
- Part of a lifetime: Drawings and Designs 1919-1940, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York 1943[6]
- The Art of Scenic Design; A Pictorial Analysis of Stage Setting and its relation to Theatrical Production, 1950[7]
