
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.