008/09. Publications

Description of the Collection Single issues of two (unrelated) serial publications with articles related to László Moholy-Nagy and the Institute of Design as follows: Printing Art Quarterly and 1937 Exhibition of Design in Printing, Vol. 67, No. 2, 1937, Dartnell Publications, Inc. (Chicago). With articles "A New Instrument of Vision" by Moholy-Nagy, "Moholy-Nagy and the New Bauhaus" by William A. Kittredge, and a facsimile reproduction of the Catalog of the American School of Design. American Architect and Architecture,...

Description of the Collection Two portrait photographs (black and white; 6 x6" images on 8 x 10" stock) of Laszlo; Moholy-Nagy taken for the cover of Time magazine Feb. 14, 1946 by Vorhies Fisher. Reprinted from the original negatives in 1999. Both show the subject seated with images of his artworks mounted behind him: one with his oil on canvas painting "Nuclear II" and reading a catalogue titled "Gropius"; the other with a hanging sculpture and prints. The images were taken at the Institute of Design location at 632 N....