New Showstoppers: The Art of Stage and Screen Exhibition Celebrates Costume and Set Design

Helicline Fine Art presents Showstoppers: The Art of Stage and Screen, a new exhibition celebrating nearly a century of performance through the vision of some of the 20th century’s most influential artists and designers. On view March 12-May 10, the exhibition features more than three dozen works from Broadway, film, dance, opera, and popular entertainment.

Spanning the 1920s through the 1990s, Showstoppers brings together costume and set design drawings, illustrations, sculptures, and paintings inspired by performance. Works are available at HeliclineFineArt.com, artsy.net, and 1stDibs.com, with in-person viewings at the gallery’s Midtown Manhattan space and private zoom presentations by appointment.

Represented productions include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, My Fair Lady, Funny Girl, Sweet Charity, West Side Story, The King and I, Bye Bye Birdie, The Wiz, Anything Goes, Phantom of the Opera, South Pacific, The Pajama Game, and Follies.

Represented designers include Boris Aronson, Cecil Beaton, Leon Bibel, William Gropper, Edith Head, Al Hirschfeld, Mervyn Jules, Hilary Knight, Gaston Lachaise, Bob Mackie, Jo Mielziner, Anton Refregier, Irene Sharaff, Yves Saint Laurent, Tony Walton, Miles White, and Richard Whorf.