Collection Information
Size: 16 Drawings, 2 p. accompanying notes, pen and ink, 11 x 8 in. +
Summary: Sixteen original drawings, many with text, that comprised the "Marcel Breuer Coloring Book" (ca. 1962). Included are notes by donor Lorry Roeder explaining the "in" humor and office personalities of the Breuer New York office of the early 1960s. The drawings and cryptic text make humorous reference to various Breuer projects, colors, materials, and working methods, such as the Unesco Building in Paris, Cesca and Isokon chairs, his use of stone and concrete, and "Breuer Blue." While the illustrator/author of the coloring book and the circumstances of its creation are unknown, the last page, stamped, December 20, 1962, provides a probable date of origin. The book may have been distributed as a year-end office folly (a mimeographed copy appears among the papers of Marcel Breuer that were donated by Breuer to the Archives of American Art).