Women making history in art : Anni Albers

Date
Jan 9, 2025 6:00 PM
Location
parlor
Admission

Open to the public
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$10 | General admission
FREE | Salmagundi members

The Salmagundi Club presents the third in a series of talks on the incredibly versatile — and often unheralded — professional women artists who made art in the century before World War Two. They were painters, printmakers, sculptors, designers, woodworkers, weavers and entrepreneurs.

Join us to explore the work and career of textile artist and designer Anni Albers. Her career is studded with legends from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain College. In 1949, she became the first textile artist to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

In the past year Anni Albers’ work has been the subject of exhibitions in Brussels, Australia, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and at the Blanton Museum at the University of Texas. This year Albers will be the focus of exhibitions in Bern, Switzerland and in Aarhus, Denmark.

[1994-10-236] Anni Albers Drawing for Nylon Rug, 1959 Gouache and photostat on paper 14 x 8 1/2 in. (35.6 x 21.6 cm) © 2024 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
[1994-10-236] Anni Albers Drawing for Nylon Rug, 1959 Gouache and photostat on paper 14 x 8 1/2 in. (35.6 x 21.6 cm) © 2024 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
A woman wearing a red necklace and a hair bun smiles.

About the Speaker

Our speaker Brenda Danilowitz is the chief curator of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, Connecticut. She curated a recent Anni Albers exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York, and has curated exhibitions on Anni in Wales, Scotland, New Zealand and at Wesleyan University, She has curated exhibits on Anni and Josef in Madrid, Lima, Cuenca, Mexico City and Sao Paolo and she has written books on both. Brenda Danilowitz received undergraduate degrees in biochemistry and art history and an M.A. in art history from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

[1994-15-24] Anni Albers Textile sample, n.d. Cotton, cellophane, and cotton gimp 2 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. (5.4 x 5.4 cm) © 2024 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
[1994-15-24] Anni Albers Textile sample, n.d. Cotton, cellophane, and cotton gimp 2 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. (5.4 x 5.4 cm) © 2024 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
[2017-31-1_x5000] Anni Albers Ark panels for Congregation B’nai Israel, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 1962 Jute, cotton, and Lurex mounted on wood and aluminum panels Overall: 63 3/4 x 96 1/2 in. (161.9 x 245.2 cm) © 2024 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
[2017-31-1_x5000] Anni Albers Ark panels for Congregation B’nai Israel, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 1962 Jute, cotton, and Lurex mounted on wood and aluminum panels Overall: 63 3/4 x 96 1/2 in. (161.9 x 245.2 cm) © 2024 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Hungry?

Grab a bite to eat after the event from our dining room (a normally member-only benefit)! Ticketed attendees who would like to stay for drinks and dinner should make dining reservations in advance via our Reservations page with the message “Women Art History dinner”.

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