Josef Albers, Black Mountain, N.C. postcard to Marcel Breuer, Cambridge, Mass., 1939

Physical Details: Postcard : 1 item : ill. ; 14 x 9 cm.

Sender: Josef Albers (Black Mountain, N.C.)

Recipient: Marcel Breuer (Cambridge, Mass.)

Description: New Year's greeting from painter and Bauhaus teacher Joseph Albers.
The postcard is a color photograph of "The Loop," near Newfound Gap in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on which Albers has stencilled in paint, "a good : 9." The semicolon in arranged to make "the Loop" resemble the number 3, so that the front of the postcard reads, "a good 39."

Forms part of: Marcel Breuer papers 1920-1986

Citation: Josef Albers, Black Mountain, N.C. postcard to Marcel Breuer, Cambridge, Mass., 1939. Marcel Breuer papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Digital ID: 994

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