Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College,
1933-1957, runs from October 10 through January 24, 2016, at the Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston.
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| Josef Albers, Prefatio, 1942 |
Of course, Josef Albers was a key figure; he taught
there from 1933 to 1949.
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| Fannie Hillsmith, The House, 1946 |
Fannie Hillsmith (1911-2007) taught at Black Mountain
in 1945 at the invitation of Albers. In 1996 she and I travelled together to
Asheville, North Carolina, when their archives honored her with a one-woman
show. We visited the college grounds and even though it had been turned into a
summer camp she could still see traces of the original layout.
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| Peter Grippe, Death of the Heros, 1952 |
In the summer of 1948 Peter Grippe taught sculpture there; in addition to Albers his colleagues were Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham, and Beaumont Newhall.
Franz Kline (1910-1962) taught there in 1952.
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| Franz Kline, Bather Drying Her Hair, about 1945 |
Link to Gallery site:
http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=btmt
