Dorothea Rockburne

Dorothea Rockburne, Shadowed Perimeter, 2004 – 2008, Edition 63/70. Etching and silkscreen on Somerset paper. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the Artist. Marie Tavroges Stilkind, Dorothea Rockburne, ca. 1952. Vintage gelatin silver...

Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence

Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Lullaby, 1992. Offset lithograph on paper. Collection of  Connie Bostic. Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence (Faculty Spouse, Informal Dance Instructor 1946 Summer Session) (b.1913-d.2005) Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence was born in Barbados and moved to...

Susan Weil

Hazel Larsen Archer, Portrait of Susan Weil, ca. 1948. Vintage gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer. Susan Weil, Musical Chairs, 1995. Acrylic on paper. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center . Gift of the Artist Susan...

Jo Sandman

Jo Sandman, Untitled, 1952. Oil on canvas. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts  Center. Gift of the Artist. Jo Sandman (Student 1951 Summer Session) (b.1931) Boston-based artist Jo Sandman’s practice has explored painting, drawing, experimental...

Marie Stilkind

Ray Johnson (b.1927-d.1995), Marie Tavroges Stilkind at the Museum of Modern Art, 1960s. Archival pigment prints. Collection of Black Mountain College  Museum + Arts Center. Gift of Marie Tavroges Stilkind. Installation photo by Michael Oppenheim.   Marie...

Cornelia “Nell” Goldsmith

Nell GoldsmithHeyns (Student 1942-1944) (b.1924-d.2011), Self-portrait at Studies Building, ca. 1943 -1944. Archival pigment print from a digital scan of a color slide. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives, State of North Carolina. Cornelia “Nell” Goldsmith (Heyns)...

Ati Gropius Forberg Johansen

Ati Gropius Forberg Johansen Above: Untitled (Guitar), 1945. Oil on cardboard. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. | Below: Footnotes on the year 1944, ca. 1995. Ink on paper. Collection of Black  Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of...

Faith Murray Britton

Faith Murray Britton, Untitled, n.d. Tempera paint on paper. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the Artist. Faith Murray Britton (Student 1941-1942) (b.1922-d.1983) The Weaver, painted by alumna Faith Murray Britton in the summer of...

Jack Tworkov

Jack Tworkov, “KTL #1,” 1982. Lithograph. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of Pat and Ed Butler. Jack Tworkov, “L-SF-ES #1,” 1979. Etching with aquatint, copyright proof #2 for subscriber’s edition. Collection of Black...

Mim Sihvonen

Mim Sihvonen, Wooden Plates made at Black Mountain College, n.d. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the Artist. Mim Sihvonen, Stool made at Black Mountain College, 1948. Maple. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center....

Elaine de Kooning

Elaine de Kooning, Fairfield Porter, 1956. Ink and casein on paper. Collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Gift of Helen Porter and Jim Dyke, 2017.50 Clemens Kalischer (Visiting Photographer 1948 and 1954) (b.1921-d.2018), William...

Lore Kadden Lindenfeld

Lore Kadden Lindenfeld, Weaving Sample with Diagram, ca. 1948. Textile and paper. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the Artist. Lore Kadden Lindenfeld (Student 1945-1948) (b.1921-d.2010) Lore Kadden came to the United States with her...

Ursula Mamlok

Ursula Mamlok, courtesy of the Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Foundation.  “I went one summer to a music institute at Black Mountain College, and there assembled all the European refugees. A big festival of Schönberg’s 70th birthday was celebrated, 1944,...

Anni Albers

Hazel Larsen Archer, Portrait of Anni Albers, ca. 1948. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer. Anni Albers (Faculty Weaving and Textile Design 1933-1949) (b.1899-d.1994) Anni Albers arrived at the Bauhaus in 1922, intending to study the...

Ruth Asawa

Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.373, Hanging Six-Lobed, Multilayered Interlocking Continuous Form within a Form), 1954. Enameled and oxidized copper wire. Collection of Black Mountain  College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of Lorna Blaine Halper. Ruth Asawa (Student 1946-1949)...

Emerson Woelffer

Emerson Woelffer, “Untitled,” 1979. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Private Donor. Emerson Woelffer (b. 1914 Chicago, IL – d. 2003) Emerson Woelffer was born in Chicago, and as a child travelled the Yucatan where he became fascinated...

Jean Charlot

Jean Charlot working on fresco “Inspiration” under the Studies Building Black Mountain College, Summer 1944. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives. Gift of Janet Heling Roberts. Jean Charlot (b. 1898 Paris, France – d. 1979 Honolulu, Hawaii) Jean...

Ingeborg Lauterstein

Trude Guermonprez, Ingeborg Lauterstein wearing centaur costume designed by Rauschenberg, Black Mountain College, 1949. Collection of Black  Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Ingeborg Lauterstein (Student 1948-1949) (b.1923-d.2012) Ingeborg Lauterstein, known as...

Patsy Lynch Wood

Patsy Lynch Wood (Student 1942-1948)   Patsy Lynch Wood attended Black Mountain College for six years, and graduated with a degree in Music. She became friends with composer/musician John Cage and lived at The Land, a small community founded by former BMC artists...

Kenneth Snelson

Kenneth Snelson, “Tall Star,” 1979. Aluminum and stainless steel. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the Artist. Kenneth Snelson (b. 1927 Pendleton, Oregon – d. 2016 New York City) Internationally known artist Kenneth Snelson was...