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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR67.20
People
Anni Albers, American (Berlin 1899 - 1994 Orange, Conn.)
Title
Bedspread or Harvard Graduate Center
Classification
Textile Arts
Work Type
textile
Date
1949
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222570

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cotton, plain weave plaid in black, white, and red
Technique
Woven
Dimensions
241.2 x 143.3 cm (94 15/16 x 56 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Collection of the artist (1949-1967), gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1967.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Anni Albers
Copyright
© The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1967
Object Number
BR67.20
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Nicholas Fox Weber and Martin Filler, Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living, exh. cat., Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Merrell Publishers Ltd. (London and New York, 2004), cat. no. 106, p. 127, color illus.
  • Laura Muir, Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 274, 279-280, plate 40, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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