Correspondence

The Correspondence with Individuals subseries includes letters between Anni Albers and family, friends, colleagues, and various individuals that Anni likely never met. Of note are correspondents Maximilian Schell, John Cage (with enclosed macrobiotic recipes), Max Bill, Buckminster Fuller, Ruth Asawa, and Robert and Elodie Osborn. Highlights include the letters of sympathy written to Anni upon Josef’s death.

The Correspondence with Institutions and Organizations subseries includes letters between Anni Albers and various institutions and organizations. Included among this subseries is correspondence regarding solo and group exhibitions and artwork gifts, sales and loans. Of note is correspondence with the Art Institute of Chicago, Bauhaus Archiv, Camino Real, Sidney Janis Gallery, Yale University, Zabriskie Gallery, letters from German institutions regarding Josef Albers’s death, and letters regarding Anni’s “Pictorial Weavings,” traveling exhibition.