My Encounters with Anni Albers
Sheila Hicks, Tate Etc.
September 2018
I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know who Anni Albers was when I began studying painting at Yale School of Art from 1954 to 1957, but would soon meet her through her husband Josef, who was directing the school. One year, while taking George Kubler’s class on pre-Columbian art, I chose to write a term paper on pre-Incaic Andean textiles. Their ritual burial cloths and mummy bundles had made such a strong impression on me in slide lectures, and when I began writing about them I realised I’d have to learn how they were made as well. […]