These books exercised an enormous influence on North American design pedagogy, including in Canada, from the Second World War up to the 1970s. Second wife of Bauhaus Master László Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy had quite extensive links with Canada during the 1960s. She was invited to lecture at the University of Manitoba, she published an article in the University of Manitoba's Perspective magazine, she published in Eli Bornstein’s Structurist journal, she corresponded with Peter Collins of McGill University, with A. J. Diamond (in his role as editor of Architecture Canada) about the impending destruction of Toronto’s Old City Hall (which she opposed vehemently), and with John Andrews of Toronto about plans for the Erindale and Scarborough Campuses of the University of Toronto. Like Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, György Kepes did not attend the Bauhaus and Germany, but worked as László Moholy-Nagy's assistant in Berlin and London, and taught at the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Written during the War, his volume on display here was one of the most influential design textbooks of the post-War period. Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885-1967), known more as an art critic and urban theorist in Germany than as an architect, was hired by Hannes Meyer to teach at the Bauhaus once Meyer established an architecture program at the school in 1928. Mies van der Rohe in turn invited him to teach at IIT in 1938, where he became Director of the Department of City and Regional Planning in 1955. László Moholy-Nagy's The New Vision first appeared in 1932 as the heavily revised English edition of Von Material zu Architektur, and soon became a kind of design bible for progressive art, design and architecture schools throughout North America, including Canada. It is still in print. Upper register, left to right: Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Matrix of Man: An Illustrated History of Urban Environment. New York: Praeger, 1968; Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture, New York: Horizon Press, 1957; György Kepes, author and designer, Language of Vision: Painting, Photography, Advertising-Design. Chicago: Paul Theobald & Co., 1944; Ludwig Hilberseimer, The New Regional Pattern, Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1949. William Flemming, design; László Moholy-Nagy, author and designer, The New Vision: Fundamentals of Design—Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York, 1938. Lower register, left to right: Kurt Kranz, Art: The Revealing Experience. New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1964; Johannes Itten, Design and Form: The Basic Course at the Bauhaus and Later. Revised Edition, New York: Van Nostrand, 1975; László Moholy-Nagy, designer and author, Von Material zu Architektur [From Material to Architecture], Bauhausbücher no. 14, Munich: Albert Langen, 1929, with English-language facsimile showing original dust jacket design (Zurich: Lars Müller, 2019); László Moholy-Nagy, The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist, New York: Wittenborn, 1949. (Unless otherwise indicated, all objects are from a private collection)