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Box 1, Folder 6
Contains loose sketches in Indian ink and pencil.
Landscape Studies, 1942-1969 1 folder
Box 1, Folder 7
Consists of pencil drawings of several landscapes of Greece.
"Proschedia" [Drafts], 1944-1952 1 folder
Box 1, Folder 8
Most of the drawings are undated but they are kept in the same folder that Vakalo used.
Series 1: Artwork, 1938-1969 4 boxes
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.
Box 5, Folder 20
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).
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.
Box 6, Folder 3
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].
Talks and Articles, 1945-1958 1 folder
Box 6, Folder 4
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].
This subseries consists of writings by Vakalo, both in Greek and French, regarding the theater, painting, colors in painting, and stage design.
Articles, 1944-1961 1 folder
Box 6, Folder 11
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).
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.
Series 3: Writings, 1928-1998 2 boxes
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.
Box 16
Consists of (1) photograph album (28 x 39 cm.) of black-and-white photographs; there are also newspaper clippings attached on a few leaves.
Box 17
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].
Box 18
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.
This subseries consists of photograph albums of Vakalo's several works for theatrical plays.
Series 4: Photography, 1931-1982 9 boxes
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 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.
Box 9, Folder 15-16
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.
This subseries consists of catalogs both of Vakalo's one-man exhibitions and group exhibitions.
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.
Contracts, 1925-1939, 1970-1981 1 folder
Box 10, Folder 6
Consists of original contracts with theaters in Paris, the Greek National Opera, and the National Theater of Greece.
This series consists of original documents, including contracts with theaters, Vakalo's identification cards, documents regarding his pension, accords, and invoices.
This subseries consists of Greek, French, and German magazines, as well as one Greek calendar.
This series consists of printed documentation: catalogs, newspaper and magazine clippings, posters, and other ephemera used by Vakalo as research sources for his work.
Box 12, Folder 7-8
Exhibitions Reviews, 1938-1972 1 folder
Box 13, Folder 3
Consists of clippings of reviews of group or one-man exhibitions that Vakalo participated either in Greece or abroad.
Theater Reviews, 1939-1957 1 folder
Box 13, Folder 4
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].
Miscellaneous, 1939-1973 1 folder
Box 13, Folder 6
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).
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 series consists of magazines, playbills, and clippings of several Greek and foreign newspapers.
Box b-001859, Folder 5
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.
Photo Collage Album, 1946-1968 1 folder
Box b-001860, Folder 2
Consists of a selection of photographs of Vakalo artworks that were presented in different art exhibitons in Thessalonikē and in Cyprus.
