
The Lunatic
Catalogue
- Year
- 1898
- Dimensions
- Image/block: 12.5 × 6.2 cm (4 15/16 × 2 1/2 in.); Sheet: 18 × 12.3 cm (7 1/8 × 4 7/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Edward Gordon Craig
Artist

Printmaking
Edward Gordon Craig was a British theatre designer, director, and theorist whose radical approach to stagecraft fundamentally reshaped early modern theatre practice. Working across set design, lighting, and spatial composition, Craig developed a distinctive visual language that prioritized abstraction, symbolic form, and the actor's movement within a carefully controlled environment. His influential writings on theatre reform and his experimental productions established him as a foundational figure in twentieth-century avant-garde performance. Craig's legacy extends across multiple disciplines, from graphic design to architectural thinking about the stage as a complete artistic medium.
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Untitled (Theatrical Scene)
1921 · Etching in black on cream laid paper

Hommage to Jacques Callot
1921 · Wood engraving in black on cream Japanese paper

For King Lear
1920 · Woodcut on cream Japanese tissue

The Storm Scene
1920 · Woodcut

Beauty
1914 · Woodcut from a carved whitewood marionette figure inked in black and manually pressed on cream Japanese tissue

Yorick, from Hamlet
1913 · Woodcut on cream Japanese tissue
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- Edward Gordon Craig
- Year
- 1898
- Dimensions
- Image/block: 12.5 × 6.2 cm (4 15/16 × 2 1/2 in.); Sheet: 18 × 12.3 cm (7 1/8 × 4 7/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1898-059945
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified