PHOTOGRAPHS

Buckminster Fuller’s Architecture class, 1949 Summer Institute, Black Mountain College. Note on the back of the photo states: “Architecture, construction of molds for precast forms for domes.” Left to right: unidentified student, Eugene Godfrey, Mary Jo Slick, unidentified student. Courtesy North Carolina Museum of Art. Western Regional Archives.
Snowball fight, Lake Eden campus, Black Mountain College, ca. early 1940s. On back of the photograph: “Jane Slater, standing to right of snow man.” Photographer is identified as John Campbell. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
“Hand and hand through the fields [Craggy Mtns., NC].” Publicity photo for Black Mountain College featuring two BMC college students. Left to right: Betty Kelley, Leonard Billing. Courtesy the North Carolina State Archive
Elaine de Kooning and Buckminster Fuller’s Venetian Blind Strip Dome, 1948 Summer Session in the Arts, Black Mountain College. Photo by Trude Guermonprez (1910-1976). Courtesy Western Regional. Archives
Two weavers with rug loom, ca. 1940. Photographer: John Stix. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Weaving Class, Summer Art Institute 1945, Black Mountain College. Photographer: John Harvey Campbell.
Buckminster Fuller’s architecture classroom, Black Mountain College, 1949 Summer Institute. Second Snelson tensegrity structure to the right. Courtesy North Carolina State Archives.
Josef Albers’s Drawing Class, Black Mountain College, ca. 1939-1940. From the back of the photograph: “left to right (incomplete listing): Charles Kessler (extreme left, hand on hip), Hope Stephens (in straight skirt and the saddle shoes), Betty Brett (leaning forward, standing in fron of male student with pencil behind his ear), Frances Kuntz (beside Brett), Dick Andrews (with pipe), Fred Stone (in front of Andrews), Mimi French (in dark sweater and light collar), Robert De Niro (hand on hip, moccasins), Bela Martin (t-shirt and sneakers), Martha McMillan (light plaid shirt and sneakers with dark socks), Harriet Englehardt (dark plaid shirt, light socks, standing on second and third steps), Rudolph Haase (sitting on banister).” Photograph likely taken at the Blue Ridge campus. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Work program team leaving Lee Hall for Lake Eden. When the college purchased land nearby, the work program was expanded to include the construction of college buildings and the maintenance of an inn and farm on the Lake Eden property. The college officially moved to the Lake Eden campus in 1941. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Performance of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, May 1940. Photograph by Robert Haas (1898-1997). Courtesy of Western Regional Archives. Black Mountain College
Student Don Page at a loom, doing work for a Black Mountain College weaving class. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Moving the pianos to the Lake Eden campus from the Blue Ridge campus. Left to right: Jane Robinson, Paul Wiggin, George Cadmus, and unidentified person. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Josef Albers’ drawing class, Black Mountain College. From the back of the photograph: “Albers, seated; Eva Zhitlowsky, seated at Albers’s left; Faith Murray, standing behind Albers, against wall, with bangs and glasses; Claude Stoller, third from right, against wall.” Photograph likely taken at the Blue Ridge campus. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Dan Rice and Robert Creeley at Black Mountain College (ca. 1955). Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Josef Albers’ drawing class ca. 1939-40. Left to right: Lisa Jalowetz, Bela Martin, Fred Stone, Betty Brett, Albers (kneeling), Robert de Niro, Martha McMillan, Eunice Shifris. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Summer Arts Institute Faculty, Black Mountain College, 1946. Left to right: Leo Amino, Jacob Lawrence, Leo Lionni, Ted Dreier, Nora Lionni, Beaumont Newhall, Gwendolyn Lawrence, Ise Gropius, Jean Varda (in tree), Nancy Newhall (sitting), Walter Gropius, Mary “Molly” Gregory, Josef Albers, Anni Albers. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Group Portrait, Blue Ridge Campus, Black Mountain College. Photograph of Charles Lindsley (?), John Evarts, Robert Wunsch, Erwin Straus, Heinrich Jalowetz. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Josef Albers and student Robert De Niro during Albers’s drawing class, Black Mountain College, ca. 1939-1940. Student Emil Willometz is in the right foreground. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Barbara Sieck, Black Mountain College student, in her student study ca. 1939-1942. Courtesy the North Carolina State Archive
Buckminster Fuller in “The Ruse of The Medusa”, Summer Session 1948, Black Mountain College. Courtesy: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
Anni Albers, Photograph of Anni Albers card weaving at Black Mountain College. Anni Albers taught Weaving and Textile Design at Black Mountain College from 1933-1949. Courtesy The North Carolina State Archives.
Jane Robinson on stage with stage director George Randall (at left), getting ready for a performance of “The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov at Black Mountain College, Spring 1941. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
1949 Summer Institute, Buckminster Fuller, Architecture. Pictured: Jeffery Lindsay (sunglasses), Joseph Manulik (behind Lindsay), Ysidore Martinez (behind Caviani), Harold Young (cap), Louis Caviani (far right). They are holding: dome of thirty-one-great circle necklace structure of tubular beads and continuous internal cable net. Constructed in Chicago, 1948-1949. Reconstructed at Black Mountain College, Summer 1949. Double heat-sealed pneumatic transparent skin (not pictured) tested at Black Mountain College. Photographer: Masato Nakagawa.
Blue Ridge campus scene at Black Mountain College. Although several BMC community members are pictured, the only ones identified are John Rice (sitting in the rocking chair) and student David Bailey (wearing a hat). Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Xanti Schawinsky, Bühnen- und Kostümentwurf zu „Circus” Szene „Dompteur und Untier”, 1924, 34,2 x 50,1 cm, Tempera, Tusche und Bleistift auf Papier, Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin Inv.-Nr. 3892.
Portrait of John Andrew Rice (Classics instructor, 1933-1939). Rice was also the first Rector of Black Mountain College. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Ruth Asawa, Black Mountain College student from 1946-1949, perhaps in an art class. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Group photo taken at the entrance to the Studies Building (?), Lake Eden Campus, Black Mountain College, Summer 1946. From left to right: Kendall Cox, Theodore “Quintus” Dreier, Jr., Bob Murphy, Peter Oberlander, unidentified person, Nick Muzenic, and Barbara Stein. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Charles Olson writing at Black Mountain College. Portrait taken by Jonathan Williams of Charles Olson writing at Black Mountain College. Charles Olson taught Writing and Literature at Black Mountain College 1948-1949, 1951, 1953-1956 and in 1953 was appointed the college’s Rector.
Xanti Schawinsky, Spectodrama, Teil 4, Szene 1. Materialdemonstration. 1924-1937, ca. 40×51 cm, Foto auf belichtetem Fotopapier, Nachlass Schawinsky.
Dining Room, Blue Ridge campus, Black Mountain College, ca. 1940. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives
1949 Summer Institute, Buckminster Fuller, Architecture. Pictured: Jeffery Lindsay (sunglasses), Joseph Manulik (behind Lindsay), Ysidore Martinez (behind Caviani), Harold Young (cap), Louis Caviani (far right). They are holding: dome of thirty-one-great circle necklace structure of tubular beads and continuous internal cable net. Constructed in Chicago, 1948-1949. Reconstructed at Black Mountain College, Summer 1949. Double heat-sealed pneumatic transparent skin (not pictured) tested at Black Mountain College. Photographer: Masato Nakagawa. Courtesy Western Regional Archives
Portrait taken by Jonathan Williams of Charles Olson at Black Mountain College. Charles Olson taught Writing and Literature at Black Mountain College and in 1953 was appointed the college’s Rector. Courtesy Western Regional Archives.
Faculty meeting at Black Mountain College, Blue Ridge campus. Left to right: Robert Wunsch, Josef Albers, Heinrich Jalowetz, Theodore Dreier, Erwin Straus, unknown, Lawrence Kocher. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Original postcard featuring the view of the Dining Hall on the Lake Eden campus, no date. Released by Emily R. Wood. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Black Mountain College football game, ca. 1946-1948 / Photographer: Ilya Bolotowsky (who taught Art from 1946 – summer 1948). Courtesy The North Carolina State Archives
Dining Hall and lodges, Lake Eden Campus, Black Mountain College. Courtesy the North Carolina State Archives.
Portrait taken by Jonathan Williams of Dan Rice and Robert Creeley at Black Mountain College, ca. 1955. This photograph was likely taken under the Studies Buildings on the Lake Eden campus. Creeley taught Literature and Writing at BMC in 1954 and Rice was a student from 1946-1953.
Jean Charlot working on Fresco “Inspiration” under the Studies Building, Black Mountain College, summer 1944. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Dining Hall (front view), Lake Eden Campus, Black Mountain College. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.