Finding Aid of the Nan Weston Notebook, 1937, PC.1958
Abstract
Anne "Nan" Howard (Chapin) Weston (1913-1992), a native of Hartford, Connecticut,
was a student at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, from 1930 to 1933. She, and
her future husband, Norman Betts Weston (1913-2000), were among the body of students
who followed John Andrew Rice from Rollins to Black Mountain College in Black Mountain,
N.C., in the autumn of 1933. Weston was a student at Black Mountain College, 1933-1936
and also a drama assistant, 1936-1938.
The collection consists of one binder with 37 leaves (some blank) that contain pasted
color cutouts and some pencil figures demonstrating the application of various color
systems studied while a student in a course taught by Josef Albers.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Nan Weston Notebook
- Call Number
- PC.1958
- Creator
- Weston, Anne Howard (Chapin)
- Date
- 1937
- Extent
- 1.00 items
- Language
- English
- Repository
- Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina
Restrictions on Access & Use
Access Restrictions
Available for research.
Use Restrictions
Copyright is retained by the authors of these materials, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law (Title 17 US Code). Individual researchers are responsible for using these materials in conformance with copyright law as well as any donor restrictions accompanying the materials.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], PC.1958, Nan Weston Notebook, State Archives of North Carolina, Western Regional Archives, Asheville, NC, USA.
Biographical and Historical No
Anne "Nan" Howard (Chapin) Weston (1913-1992), a native of Hartford, Connecticut, was a student at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, from 1930 to 1933. She, and her future husband, Norman Betts Weston (1913-2000), were among the body of students who withdrew from Rollins College in the spring of 1933 along with John Andrews Rice and other faculty members during a controversy over educational methods. The dissidents then founded Black Mountain College at Black Mountain, N.C., in the autumn of 1933, with the intention of raising to full curricular status the study of the fine arts.
The faculty at Black Mountain College was joined at its founding by Josef Albers (1888-1976) who emigrated to the United States in the wake of the closing of the Bauhaus by Nazi authorities in 1933. Mrs. Weston studied drawing under Albers from 1934 to 1936. In the spring of 1937 she took an introductory course taught by Albers on color studies. The course involved research into the different qualities of color when related to form, space, distance, quantity, intensity, and into the effect of color on the psyche. Some lectures in the course were devoted to the color systems of Goethe, Schopenhauer, and Ostwald.
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Acquisitions Information
Gift, Carol Weston, San Antonio, TX, 11 Dec 2006. During March-April, 2012, these records were moved from the State Archives building in Raleigh to the Western Regional Archives, Asheville, N.C.