7.29.2012

artists in their studios

Robert Rauschenberg
381 Lafayette Street
NYC
1968
Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Robert Rauschenberg and Brice Marden
381 Lafayette Street
NYC
1968
Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Beverly Pepper
Todi, Italy
1975
Photo: Ban Budnick

George Grey Barnard
Upper West Side
NYC
ca. 1916
Photos: top- unknown, 
bottom- Underwood & Underwood

Grant Wood
5 Turner Alley
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1931
Photo: John W. Barry

John Storrs
854 1/2 North State Street,
Chicago
1933
Photo: Unknown

Chaim Gross
Queens
NYC
1939
Photo: Peter A. Juley & Son

Robert Boardman Howard
San Francisco
1939
Photo: Unknown

Eugenie Gershoy
145 West 14th Street
NYC
1940
Photo: Max Yavno

Yasuo Kuniyoshi
30 East 14th Street
NYC
1940
Photo: Max Yavno

Alexander Calder
Roxbury, Connecticut
1960
Photo: Unknown

Action Jackson Pollock
The Springs, Long Island, New York
1950
Photo: Rudy Burckhardt

David Smith
Voltri, Italy
1962
Photo: Ugo Mulas

William De Kooning
85 Fourth Avenue
NYC
1952
Photo: Kay Bell Reynal

Marcel Duchamp
210 West 14th Street
NYC
1952
Photo: Kay Bell Reynal

Hans Hofmann
53 East Ninth Street
NYC
1952
Photo: Kay Bell Reynal

Robert Motherwell
14th Street
NYC
1952
Photo: Kay Bell Reynal

Saul Steinberg
East 71st Street
NYC
1959
Photo: Inge Morath

Marky Mark Rothko
West 53rd Street
NYC
1952
Photo: Kay Bell Reynal

Claes Oldenburg
330 East Fourth Street
NYC
1961
Photo: Robert R. McElroy

Lee Krasner
The Springs, Long Island, New York
1962
Photo: Hans Namuth

Ad Reinhardt
732 Broadway
NYC
1961
Photo: Fred W. McDarrah

Jimmy James Rosenquist
429 Broome Street
NYC
1963
Photo: Ellen Hulda Johnson

N.C. Wyeth
Denver, Colorado
1904
Photo: Unknown

Louise Nevelson
29 Spring Street
NYC
1966
Photo: Ugo Mulas

Roy Lichtenstein
Southampton, Long Island
1979
Photo: Lenore Seroka

Helen Frankenthaler
Stamford, Connecticut
1984
Photo: Hans Namuth

Violet Oakley
Red Rose Inn
Villanova, Pennsylvania
1902
Photo: Unknown

Sam Francis
Fitzsimmons Army Hospital
Denver, Colorado
1944
Photo: Unknown

LeRoy Neiman
1 West 67th Street
NYC
1990
Photo: Steve Friedman

Nickolas Mury
120 MacDougal Street
Greenwich Village
NYC
ca. 1920
Photo: Nickolas Mury

John Sloan
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1939
Photo: Ernest Knee and Len Bouché
(I love the chair to the right.)

Ellsworth Kelly
3-5 Coenties Slip
NYC
1957
Photo: Hans Namuth
(That is Agnes Martin to the left, she had a studio
in the same building.)

Andrew Warhola
231 East 47th Street
NYC
Photo: Ugo Mulas
(Assistants Philip Fagan and Gerard Malanga
are the goofs in the background.)

Chuck Close
West 3rd Street
NYC
1983
Photo: Lenore Seroka
(That is Ray Johnson to the left drawing Chucky's nose.)

All images from the book:
"Artists in Their Studios:
Images from the Smithsonian's Archive of American Art"
by Liza Kirwin with Joan Lord
2007

7.26.2012

josef albers in glass

Josef Albers
with Herbert and Mutzi Bayer
Ascona, Switzerland
1929

Few people know that Josef Albers's first
great works of art were in glass.
He started producing these works 
in 1921 and stopped when he left the 
Bauhaus in 1933 and moved to America.
These are still, to me, quite startling works,
especially considering when they were made.

Josef Albers
"Rhenish Legend"
Glass assemblage
1921

Josef Albers
"Figure"
Glass assemblage
1921

Josef Albers
"Untitled"
Glass assemblage
1921

Josef Albers
"Gitterbild"
Glass assemblage
1921

Josef Albers
"Park"
Glass assemblage
1924

Josef Albers
"Factory"
Sandblasted glass with paint
1925

Josef Albers
"Tectonic Group"
Sandblasted glass with paint
1925

Josef Albers
"Goldrosa"
aka "Upward" and "Structure in Red"
Sandblasted glass with paint
ca. 1926

Josef Albers
"Upward"
Sandblasted glass with paint
ca. 1926

Josef Albers
"Latticework"
Sandblasted glass with paint
ca. 1926

Josef Albers
"Walls and Screens"
aka "Pillars II"
Sandblasted glass with paint
1928

Josef Albers
"Bowers"
Sandblasted glass with paint
1929

Josef Albers
"Interior a"
Sandblasted glass with paint
1929

Josef Albers
"Windows"
Sandblasted glass with paint
1929

Josef Albers
"In the Water"
Sandblasted glass with paint
1931
Bridget who???

Josef Albers
"Cables"
Sandblasted glass with paint
1931

Josef Albers
"Flying"
Sandblasted glass with paint
1931

All images from 
"Josef Albers: Glass, Color, Light"
From an exhibition organized by the
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
and the
Josef Albers Foundation, Orange, Connecticut
1994