Model for Clown puppet

Model for the 35-foot clown in Billy Rose's production Jumbo.

Conservation assessment: DO NOT HANDLE; textile is brittle and any movement causes loss to the gritty pigment on the surface. Do not remove from the pallet without the supervision of a conservator. Requires two people to lift the pallet from the box.

Remo Bufano

Dramatic Museum Realia

Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

1934-1935

DM number: P47.06

Box: 56

United States

Cooper Union Museum (Remo Bufano Studios, Inc.), 1953

Bell, John. "Puppets and 'The Iconography of Drama': The Brander Matthews Collection at Columbia University." in American Puppetry. Edited by Phyllis T. Dircks, 105-117. New York: McFarland and Company, 2004.; McPharlin, Paul. "Contemporary Puppets," in The Puppet Theatre in America, 331-395. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1949.; Anderson, John Murray. "Scene Twenty: Jumbo," in Out Without my Rubbers, 142-150. New York: Library Publishers, 1954.

Marionettes (stringed puppets)

cloth, metal, wood

52"