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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 the...
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 ArtistSusan...
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 1942...
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 Mountain College...
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, 2017.50Clemens 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, and they played...
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 with...
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 Charlot was an...
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 an art...
From BMC to the Cedar Tavern
“What illicit concoction - what matter of inebriation - what absinthe - lured these healthy young men (and more than a handful of women) who had survived the Depression and war to settle for an uncertain future of fly-by-night jobs and illegal living - what possessed...