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The New Bauhaus/School of Design/Institute of Design, Chicago and its Canadian Students A.

Upper register, left to right: László Moholy-Nagy, “Paths to the Unleashed Colour Camera” in: Printing Art Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 3 (1938); Letter from László Moholy-Nagy to Mr. Schiller on Institute of Design letterhead, 8 June 1946 (M. Szarvasy, New York); Portrait of Dorothy Medhurst with students, Institute of Child Study, Toronto, ca. 1970s. Photographer unknown. Digital exhibition print; Bruce Anderson, Gordon McKinley Webber: Memories of an Artist, Designer and Teacher. Montreal: McGill University School of Architecture, 1996. This booklet, written by the artist’s lover after Webber's untimely death, is the only publication to date on this important teacher and artist. Sibyl Moholy-Nagy wrote the following about Webber: “In all the 25 years that I knew him I never stopped marveling at the heroic determination behind this angelic face. His rage to live a full life, and the inexhaustible capacity to recreate the visual world in new configurations gave him that glow of inspiredness that makes a great teacher. I should always remember in particular an evening at his house during my last visit to McGill when he summed up his relationship to Moholy-Nagy as ‘the maker of my spectrum.’ You will find it difficult to replace him, but then he set a trend and a standard for the School that will remain potent.” (letter to John Bland, 22 November 1965). Lower register, left to right: László Moholy-Nagy, “New Education: Organic Approach,” a reprint from Art and Industry (March 1946); Brochure for the Institute of Design within the Illinois Institute of Technology, ca. 1950s. Designer unknown (The Salgo Trust for Education); Arts and Architecture (September 1946), open to László Moholy-Nagy’s article on art as “the grindstone of the senses,” a quotation from The New Vision (1932/38) (Unless otherwise indicated, all ojbects are from a private collection)