Michael Annals
Drawing by Michael Annals
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Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
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- Sep 25, 2026
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About the work
Drawing of a suspension bridge, by Michael Annals, late 1950s.
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Michael Annals (1938-1990) trained at Hornsey College of Art and began his career designing sets and costumes for the Old Vic. In 1963 the newly formed National Theatre Company moved into the Old Vic and Annals joined them, having his first major success with his designs for Peter Shaffer's historical epic, The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964). He went on to have an international career, designing for the theatre and for ballet, opera and film, but is most closely associated with the National Theatre, where he created notable settings for a range of productions, including O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night starring Laurence Olivier, Hecht and MacArthur's The Front Page and Shaw's Heartbreak House. Annals frequently worked in the United States and was Associate Professor of Scenic Design at Yale in 1966-1967. In 1984 he gave up the stage and took up photography and illustration.
This drawing was probably made while Annals was attending Hornsey College of Art. He was a student there from 1954 until 1959.
Victoria and Albert Museum
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- Accession number
- S.753-1991
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- Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 7 days ago
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