Musical Instruments for Snow Maiden

Boris Anisfeld's design sketches for theatrical properties reveal the Russian artist's approach to creating fantastical instruments for a stage production of *Snow Maiden*. The page layers multiple studies of ornamental vessels, wind instruments, and decorative objects rendered in ink, watercolor, and pencil. Anisfeld worked across painting, design, and illustration after emigrating to America, bringing European modernist sensibilities to theatrical production. These working drawings—annotated with measurements and notes—demonstrate the practical craft of stage design, where fantastical visual forms must be engineered for real performance.