Stanford University, Art Department, files regarding Albers Wall, 1973-1980.

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Stanford University, Art Department, files regarding Albers Wall, 1973-1980.

Correspondence, architectural plans and other materials regarding the controversial acquisition and placement of Albers Wall (outdoor art) at Stanford University, dedicated August 1, 1980. Correspondents include Prof. Albert Elsen, Assoc. Provost Edward E. Shaw, and architects Craig Ellwood and Robert Mittelstadt.

.75 linear feet.

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Elsen, Albert.

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Mittelstadt, Robert (American architect, born 1935)

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Ellwood, Craig

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Albers, Josef

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Josef Albers was born in Bottrop, Germany, on March 19, 1888. He studied art in schools in Berlin, Essen, and Munich before joining the Bauhaus school in 1920. From the completion of his studies in 1923 until the school was closed by the Nazis in 1933, Albers remained at the Bauhaus as a teacher. In 1933 Albers joined the faculty of Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he remained until 1950 when he accepted an appointment as chairman of the Yale University Department of Design. He re...

Stanford University. Dept. of Art.

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Shaw, Edward E.

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Edward E. Shaw, Stanford B.A. in economics 1965, joined the administrative staff of Stanford in the fall of 1965 as a contract administrator in the controller's office. In 1970 he became Assistant to the Vice President for Research, William F. Miller. When Miller was named Vice President and Provost in 1971, Shaw became his Executive Assistant. In 1975 he was named Associate Provost; his later positions included president of the Research Libraries Group, director of the Stanford Center for Infor...