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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
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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

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