8.15.2010

the menfolk of black mountain college

Josef Albers
Drawing Class
1939


Ilya Bolotowsky
Painting Class
1947


Kenneth Noland
Summer Session
1950


Jean Charlot
Working on Studies Building fresco.
1944


Jacob Lawrence
Chilling with his wife and a Coke.
1946


Leo Amino
Fishing?
1950


Ray Johnson
On the phone.
Richard Lippold
Being productive.
1953


Robert Motherwell
With hot wife, 
Maria.
1945


Josef Albers
with 
Robert De Niro Sr.
Drawing Class
1939


Buckminster Fuller
Teaching
1948


Leo Amino
and 
Theodoros Stamos
Being silly.
1950


William McGee
and 
Franz Kline
Looking good.
1952


Buckminster Fuller
Being amazing.
1949


Kenneth Snelson
On pier with Joy Ballon.
1949


Peter Voulkos
At home of Mrs. Ira Julian.
1952


Ray Johnson
Looking straight.
1944


Robert Rauschenberg
Self-portrait with weed.
From "Portfolio 1"
1952


John Cage
Being John Cage.
1948

Lou Harrison
Concentrating
1951


William De Kooning
and
Albert "Short-Shorts" Lanier
Buckminster Fuller's Architecture Class
1948


Robert Motherwell
Teaching
1945


Josef Albers
Fiddling with Leica.
1944


Merce Cunningham
In an oudoor solo.
1948


Merce Cunningham
Photo by Robert Rauschenberg
1952


Unknown Hottie
UPDATE:
This hottie is Cy Twombly.
Thanks Bloogers!
Photo by Robert Rauschenberg
from "Portfolio 1"
1952

15 comments:

  1. Do you think that is Merce Cunningham to the far right in the Buckminster Fuller teaching shot? Wonderful pix, thank you so much.

    Nancy Dalva
    producer/writer
    Mondays with Merce

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  2. Incredible post! Loving the blog, so much inspirational material.

    Regards from across the Atlantic
    DK Woon

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  3. "Unknown hottie" is Cy Twombly, who took Rauschenberg along on his VFMA-funded tour of Italy and North Africa in the summer of 1952.

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  4. The "unknown hottie" might be Cy Twombly. There aren't many pictures of him as a student to compare to, but the time matches up, and the image just strikes me as really familliar. I wrote a paper on him recently so it might have been in one of the books I read.

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  5. these mountains are better because they inhabited them. incredible photographs.

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  6. Leo Amino was my sculpture teacher at the Cooper Union in the early 1970's. He was the best teacher I ever had, an amazing human being, a friend. Generous with his knowledge, he taught me patience and modesty, intransigence and hard work. A great man in an otherwise rather self-satisfied milieu!
    Jean-Marie Mauclet

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  7. Jean-Marie- That's amazing! I love Leo Amino's work. I've never personally owned a work, but have handled some beautiful pieces over the years. Thanks for sharing! -MB

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  8. Where did you find these photographs?

    I'd like to borrow (with credit) the image of Ray Johnson on the telephone... can you tell me who shot it?

    Thanks, Matthew Rose / Paris, France
    http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/

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  9. It's an uncredited photograph from the book "Black Mountain College an Experiment in Art". It can be found on page 91.

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  10. Thank you for the wonderful photo essay. Quite a group of talent!

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  11. I featured Black Mountain College in my ghosts posts and linked your wonderful stories to it. loved all of these posts you did.pgt

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  12. Love the Ray Johnson "looking straight" shot
    any idea who the woman is?

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  13. We are preparing an exhibit on Black Mountain College and would like to include some of these photographs. Where did you find them and how might we get some high-res versions?

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  14. Loretta Howard Gallery, please contact me at mondoblogo@gmail.com. Thanks!

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