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.
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
Date
1938 or 1939
Record number
(DSI-AAA)994
Type
Correspondence
Place
Tenn.
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Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986
Data Source
Archives of American Art
Record ID
AAADCD_item_994