BR48.47: Design for a Silk Tapestry

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR48.47

People

Anni Albers, American (Berlin 1899 - 1994 Orange, Conn.)

Title

Design for a Silk Tapestry

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1925

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/226063

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

29.7 x 22.1 cm (11 11/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
image: 19.1 x 9.7 cm (7 1/2 x 3 13/16 in.)
standard frame: 49.8 x 39.7 cm (19 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: on verso in graphite at u.c.: Annelise Albers
• label: l.l., black ink, typewritten, English: Anni Albers, X. 1925
  Tapestry
  Silk 40" wide
  In a collection in Tokio
  (Sold through "Werkbund")
  
• blind stamp: l.r.
• stamp: verso, at u.r., black ink: albers
  stresemannallee 2
• inscription: verso, u.c., graphite, in artist's hand: Annelise Albers
  September 1926
  October

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Collection of the artist (1925 -1948), gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1948.

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

1948

Object Number

BR48.47

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. 1, p. 58, color illus.
• Ann Coxon, Briony Fer, and Maria Müller-Schareck, ed., Anni Albers, exh. cat., Tate Publishing (London, 2018), pp. 56, 179, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

• Anni Albers, Jewish Museum, 05/28/2000 - 08/20/2000
• Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 10/01/2004 - 02/27/2005
• Anni Albers: Connections, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, 09/28/2016 - 12/18/2016
• Anni Albers, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, 06/09/2018 - 09/09/2018; Tate Modern, London, 10/11/2018 - 01/27/2019
• Artisanal Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/28/2023 - 05/07/2023

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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