Harvard Art Museums > BR81.5: Monte Alban Textile Arts Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Monte Alban (Anni Albers) , BR81.5,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 05, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/222055. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number BR81.5 People Anni Albers, American (Berlin 1899 - 1994 Orange, Conn.) Title Monte Alban Classification Textile Arts Work Type textile Date 1936 Culture German Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/222055 Physical Descriptions Medium Silk, linen, wool Technique Woven Dimensions 146 x 112 cm (57 1/2 x 44 1/8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Anni Albers, sold; to Richard G. Leahy, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1981. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Leahy Copyright © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Accession Year 1981 Object Number BR81.5 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Vincent Katz, ed., Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art, exh. cat., MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts, c. 2002), p. 28, color ill. Nicholas Fox Weber and Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, Anni Albers, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY, 1999), no. 38 Larry Silver, ed., Transformation: Jews and Modernity, exh. cat., Author Ross Gallery (Pennsylvania, 2001), fig. 19, p. 43, b/w reproduction Virginia Gardner Troy, Anni Albers and Ancient American Textiles: From Bauhaus to Black Mountain, Ashgate Publishing (London, 2002), p. 109, fig. 5.5, ill. (color) Virginia Gardner Troy, アンニアルバースと古代アメリカのテキスタイル:バウハウスからブラックマウンテンへ, Kuwasawa Design Foundation (Tokyo, 2002), p. 111, fig. 5.5, ill. (color) Virginia Gardner Troy, The Modernist Textile: Europe and America 1890-1940, Lund Humphries (London, 2006), p. 135 Vincent Katz, ed., Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA, 2013), p. 28, ill. (color) Adrian Locke, Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2013), p. 158, fig. 61, ill. (color) Brenda Danilowitz, The Rigorous and the Other, Bauhaus (Dessau, Germany, 2013), June, 82-89, p. 83, ill. (color) Helen Molesworth and Ruth Erickson, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, exh. cat., Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2015), p. 149, ill. (color) Jonathan Griffin, "Weaving Histories: The Impact of Pre-Columbian Techniques and Designs on 20th-Century Artists", Frieze Masters Magazine, Frieze Publishing (London and New York, 2016), p. 75, ill. (color) Anni Albers, On Weaving: New Expanded Edition, Princeton University Press (Princeton and Oxford, 2017), pp. 220-221, fig. 1, ill. (color) Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye, Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 2017), pp.28-29, fig. 3, ill. (color) Ann Coxon, Briony Fer, and Maria Müller-Schareck, ed., Anni Albers, exh. cat., Tate Publishing (London, 2018), pp. 77, ill. (color) Zoe Ryan, ed., In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2019), pp. 44-45, 50-51, fig. 14, ill. (color) Laura Muir, Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 268, 279, plate 33, ill. (color) Frouke Van Dyke, Anni + Josef Albers, WBOOKS (The Hague, 2022), Pg. 83, Ill. Color Eric Baden and Diana Stoll, ed., Black Mountain College and Mexico, exh. cat., Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (Asheville, NC, 2023), p. 102, ill. (color) Exhibition History Josef and Anni Albers - Europe and America, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, 11/06/1998 - 01/31/1999 Anni Albers, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 03/24/1999 - 05/24/1999 Anni and Josef Albers. Latin American Journeys, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 11/14/2006 - 02/12/2007 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/06/2015 - 09/16/2015 Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 10/07/2015 - 01/24/2016 The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019 Subjects and Contexts The Bauhaus Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu