Josef Albers, Black Mountain, N.C. postcard to Marcel Breuer, Cambridge, Mass.
Object Details
- Creator
- Albers, Josef, 1888-1976
- Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : ill. ; 14 x 9 cm.
- Summary
- New Year's greeting from painter and Bauhaus teacher Joseph Albers.
The postcard is a commercial color photograph of "The Loop," a section of winding road near Newfound Gap in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Over the existing image Albers has stencilled in paint, "a good '39." The "3" in 39 is formed by the road. - Citation
- Josef Albers. Josef Albers, Black Mountain, N.C. postcard to Marcel Breuer, Cambridge, Mass., 1938 or 1939. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- 1938 or 1939
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)994
- Type
- Correspondence
- Place
- Tenn.
- See more items in
- Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986
- Archives of American Art
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_994
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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