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List of illustrations

  • Panel Fragment
  • Standing Female Figurine
  • Standing Female Figurine
  • Standing Female Figurine, reverse
  • Dog Effigy Vessel
  • Smiling Male Whistle Figurine
  • Standing Female Figurine
  • The Albers Collection of Ancient Mexican Art, installation photographs
  • The Albers Collection of Ancient Mexican Art, installation photographs
  • Kneeling Maize Goddess
  • Serape
  • Monte Alban
  • To Mitla
  • Monte Alban '35/Monte Alban
  • Untitled (Anni Albers with Pre-Columbian Head)
  • Untitled (Pre-Columbian Figure, Museo de Anthropologia, Mexico City)
  • Untitled (Pre-Columbian Figure, Museo de Anthropologia, Mexico City)
  • Untitled (Pre-Columbian Figure, Museo de Anthropologia, Mexico City)
  • Untitled (Pre-Columbian Figures, Probably in the Museo Nacional de Anthropologia, Mexico City)
  • Untitled (Pre-Columbian Stone Figure in a Museum, Mexico)
  • Untitled (Figurine Sitting in a Chair, Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Historia y Etnographía, Mexico City)
  • Haina-Maya, detail
  • Pazcuaro/Puebla/Oaxaca/Guadelajara/Mexico/Mexico/Puebla/Tolucca/Tolucca/Mexico, detail
  • Stone Figures, Museum, Mexico D. F., detail
  • Tenayuca June '39/Tenayuca
  • Leaf-green Wall
  • Untitled (Pre-Columbian Figures from the Alberses' Collection)
  • Untitled (Pre-Columbian Figures in "Masterpieces of Mexican Art: From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 1963–January 1964)
  • Vessel Fragment
  • Fragment
  • Untitled (Façade of the Governor's Palace, Uxmal)
  • Free-Hanging Room Divider
  • Hand Loom
  • Santo Thomas, Oax./Coyotepec, Mexico, detail
  • Black Mountain College Students Weaving on Back-Strap Looms
  • Mexican Textiles and Peruvian Photographs, installation photographs
  • Mexican Textiles and Peruvian Photographs, installation photographs
  • Seated Female Figurine
  • Standing Female Figurine
  • Panel Fragment
  • Interaction of Color: plate IV-1
  • Tunic Panel
  • Shrine
  • Triadic C
  • Male Figurine with Hands on Knees
  • Ganz fruhe Tarascan Kultur (Very Early Tarascan Culture)
  • Untitled (Josef Albers Holding West Mexican Figure in front of "Homage to the Square: Auriferous")
  • Homage to the Square: Auriferous
  • Anni with Frog Pendant, detail
  • Pectoral Pendant in the Form of a Frog with Twin Snakes in Its Mouth
  • Double Bowl
  • Standing Female Figurine
  • Necklace from Tomb 7 at Monte Albán
  • Necklace
  • Standing Female Figurine
  • Untitled (Pre-Columbian Figures), detail
  • Seated Hunchback Figurine
  • Untitled (Pre-Columbian Figures), detail
  • Homage to the Square: In Four Greens
  • Seated Female Figurine
  • Untitled (Pre-Columbian Figures), detail
  • Ancient Writing, detail
  • Ancient Writing
  • Invoice from Parke-Bernet Galleries
  • Vessel with Feline Mother Nursing Cubs
  • Standing Female Figurine with a Pelt Skirt
  • Standing Female Rattle Figurine
  • Panel with Figures
  • Tapestry with Human Figure and Bird Design
  • Untitled (Pre-Columbian Figures from the Alberses' Collection)
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Description: Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas
Contents
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00113.001
Description: Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas
Josef Albers (1888–1976, Hon. 1950, Hon. 1962) left an indelible legacy at Yale University, one he swiftly began to establish upon arriving in New Haven in 1950 from Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Josef had been recruited to head the Yale School of Art’s Department of Design by his good friend Charles Sawyer, who had in 1947 returned to his alma mater to become...
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Description: Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas
In September 1960 I arrived in New Haven—along with my wife, Sophie, and our children—to begin as an archaeology instructor in Yale University’s Department of Anthropology. My deceased predecessor in this post, the brilliant Andeanist Wendell Bennett, had called the department’s key two-semester course by the somewhat alarming title...
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Description: Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas
Before they achieved worldwide recognition as celebrated modern artists, Anni and Josef Albers attained modest success as artists and teachers at the Bauhaus in Germany. With the rise of Nazism in the 1930s, the Bauhaus faced heightened scrutiny and closed its doors on August 10, 1933. At this moment of great uncertainty, Josef...
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Description: Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas
Hidden in the vault at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, a small golden frog remains ever poised to leap. Couched in a series of small boxes among Anni’s personal jewelry collection, this amphibian is no mere replica, but an authentic find from the Palmar Sur archaeological excavations in the Diquís Delta, in Costa Rica’s southern Pacific region...
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Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas
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