Anni Albers
South of the Border
1957
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Anni Albers
South of the Border
1957
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 4 1/8 x 15 1/4 in. (10.5 x 38.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Decorative Arts Fund, and Contemporary Crafts Fund
Object Number
1959.91
Small rectangular horizontally oriented weaving of abstract "landscape" imagery featuring uneven geometric blocks of changing weave structures woven in bright colored threads including orange, fushia, grey, yellow, and blue,as well as occasionally black. The white warps are also visible in some areas, but not in others. An uneven surface texture is created by the varying weave structure. The short side edges are selveges. The long sides have cut edges turned under and fastened with a blind machine stitch in white thread invisible from the front of the object and only seen when the piece is unmounted.
Note: (aej)
Examination of reverse shows white, red, and black warps, 2 Z spun/ plied S; wefts are raspberry red, blue, grey, orange, yellow, black,
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase 1959 from the artist.
Anni Albers, Herbert L.Beckwith (initiator), "Anni Albers Pictorial Weavings," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The New Gallery; Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Cambridge; The Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (October 25 - November 21,1959);The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1959.
"The Woven and Graphic Art of Anni Albers," Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 12, 1985-January 5, 1986.
"Anni and Josef Albers," Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, December 7, 1989-February 25, 1990.
Rotation into BMA Galleries (Hooper Wing hall adjoining area with Tiffany columns) for small memoriam, May - [September],1994.
"Josef und Anni Albers; Europa und Amerika," Kunstmuseum, Bern, November 6, 1998- January 31, 1999.
Nicholas Fox Weber and Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, The Josef and Anni Alberts Foundation, "Anni Albers (1899-1994)," Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy, March 24 - July 18, 1999; Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Paris, September 20 - December 31, 1999. Refused third European venue and Jewish Museum, N.Y. (exposure an issue)
Brenda Danilowitz and Marta Gonzalez, "Anni and Josef Albers. Latin American Journeys," ("Anni Albers Josef, Viajes por Latinoamérica,") Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, (Madrid, Spain), November 14, 2006-February 12, 2007, [Refused extension to Bottrop, German and Lima, Peru and later additional request for Mexico City due to exposure issues].
"Anni Albers: Touching Vision," Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Bilbao, Spain), September 30, 2017 to January 14, 2018.
"Anni Albers," Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Jun-09-2018 to Sep-09-2018; Tate Modern, London, Oct-11-2018 to Jan-27-2019.
"The Woven and Graphic Art of Anni Albers," Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 12, 1985-January 5, 1986.
"Anni and Josef Albers," Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, December 7, 1989-February 25, 1990.
Rotation into BMA Galleries (Hooper Wing hall adjoining area with Tiffany columns) for small memoriam, May - [September],1994.
"Josef und Anni Albers; Europa und Amerika," Kunstmuseum, Bern, November 6, 1998- January 31, 1999.
Nicholas Fox Weber and Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, The Josef and Anni Alberts Foundation, "Anni Albers (1899-1994)," Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy, March 24 - July 18, 1999; Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Paris, September 20 - December 31, 1999. Refused third European venue and Jewish Museum, N.Y. (exposure an issue)
Brenda Danilowitz and Marta Gonzalez, "Anni and Josef Albers. Latin American Journeys," ("Anni Albers Josef, Viajes por Latinoamérica,") Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, (Madrid, Spain), November 14, 2006-February 12, 2007, [Refused extension to Bottrop, German and Lima, Peru and later additional request for Mexico City due to exposure issues].
"Anni Albers: Touching Vision," Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Bilbao, Spain), September 30, 2017 to January 14, 2018.
"Anni Albers," Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Jun-09-2018 to Sep-09-2018; Tate Modern, London, Oct-11-2018 to Jan-27-2019.
Anni Albers, Herbert L.Beckwith (initiator), "Anni Albers Pictorial Weavings," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, 1959, cat. #20, not illustrated.
Nicholas Fox Weber, "The Woven and Graphic Art of Anni Albers," 1985, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., ill. plate 23, p. 48.
Josef Helfenstein und Henriette Mentha, hrsg., 'Josef und Anni Albers: Europa und Amerika,' 1998, Bern: Kunstmuseum, Dumont Buchverlag und Autoren, Kat.-Nr. 11, s. 230, abb. s. 153.
Brenda Davilowitz et. al., "Anni and Josef Albers. Latin American Journeys," ("Anni y Josef Albers: Viajes por Latinoamerica"), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, cat. 25,
p. 204, illus. p. 66, labeled as "Al sur de la frontera." Note: photo is upside down and backwards in this publication per earlier publications. aej.)
McLean, Sarah. "A Chance Encounter: Discovering Tapestry Weaving Through Anni Albers." Tapestry Weaver 21 (March 2017): 26.
Blum, Dilys E., ed. Off the Wall: American Art to Wear. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
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