BR67.20: Bedspread or Harvard Graduate Center

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

Permissions

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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

• Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 10/01/2004 - 02/27/2005
• Tangible Things, The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Cambridge, 01/24/2011 - 05/29/2011
• The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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