Desk for Black Mountain College Students

Artwork: 2005.11.1

Desk for Black Mountain College Students

circa 1939
Chestnut, other woods, and plywood

29 x 44 x 26 inches
Gift of Peggy Barton French.
Josef Albers (designer), Desk for Black Mountain College Students, circa 1939. Chestnut, other woods, and plywood. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of Peggy Barton French.
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933 - 1957, October 10, 2015 - January 24, 2016, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; February 21 - May 14, 2016, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 17, 2016 - January 1, 2017, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University.
Black Mountain College: Shaping Craft + Design (Asheville, NC: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2013), 11.

Helen Molesworth and Ruth Erickson, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 (Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2015), 105