Original program for performance on August 14, 1948 of “The Ruse of Medusa: a lyric comedy in one act” by Erik Satie. Cast included: Buckminster Fuller, Isaac Rosenfeld, William Shrauger, Elaine de Kooning, Merce Cunningham, and Alvin Charles...
Photograph of Jose de Creeft, Jean Charlot, Amedee Ozenfant, Bernard Rudofsky, and Josef Albers; taken at the Summer Art Institute, 1944, at Lake Eden.
View of Studies Building across Lake Eden, Black Mountain College. Architect: A. Lawrence Kocher. Building was constructed by the students and faculty of Black Mountain College from 1940-1941. The photographer might have been Claude Stoller.
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.
Saturday night dance, Dining Hall, Lake Eden Campus, Black Mountain College, ca. 1945. "Elsa Kahl Cohen dancing with Erwin Straus, left foreground, Kahl in light-colored gown and earrings. Bob Marden, center, dancing with girl in plain taffeta...
Students working on drainage ditch for the Studies Building, Lake Eden campus, ca. 1940-41. When the college purchased land nearby to the Blue Ridge campus, the work program was expanded to include the construction of college buildings and the...
Buckminster Fuller and his architecture class, 1949 Summer Institute, Black Mountain College. Left to right: Kenneth Snelson, Jane "Jano" Walley, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Pearman, John Walley.
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...
Svarc Lauterstein (left) [not Susan Weil as originally identified] and Robert Rauschenberg, students at Black Mountain College ca.1948-1949. Svarc Lauterstein is dressed as a centaur for a party. Costume designed and created by Robert...
Elaine de Kooning working on the Venetian Blind Strip Dome (also known as the Supine Dome) which was created as part of Buckminster Fuller’s Architecture Class, 1948 Summer Session in the Arts. Photographer: Trude Guermonprez.
