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Dedication of Alcopley’s Portfolio
The dedication page of a small portfolio of Alcopley’s work with an introduction by Heinrich Bluecher (who signs it “h.b.”).
Photograph of Alcopley
8 in by 10 in. Photograph of Alcopley. Dedication: “To Heinrich and Hannah from Alcopley NYC 6-18 (?)-52.”
Freight Bill
LEFT: 5 1/2 in by 1 3/4 in. Ink on paper. Drawn on the blank side of a freight bill. Inscription: “For Hannah Love Alcopley N.Y.C 15.5.1959” – Signed: Alcopley 1959 RIGHT: 5 1/2 in by 4 3/4 in. Ink on paper. Drawn on the blank side of a freight bill. Inscription: “From Heinrich to
Alcopley 1954
7 1/2 in by 6 in. Ink on paper. Signed: Alcopley 1954 [in pencil]. A small up-pointing arrow is drawn in pencil on the upper left corner.
To Heinrich and his dear girl Hannah A Happy New Year From Alcopley
An 8 in by 10 in page folded in half to form a bi-fold 5 in by 7 in. New Year’s card. The front features an ink (?) on paper work by Alcopley, approx. 5 in by 4 in. titled in the lower left in pencil – The Little Harbor. Signed: Alcopley 1946. Inside message:
Happy 1958 Nina, Una Dora, Al
10 in by 2 3/4 in. Watercolor, ink, applique on paper. Reproductions of work by Nina Tryggvadottir and Alcopley – signed in pencil by both artists. Message: “Happy 1958 Nina, Una Dora, Al” [all in the same hand].
Xmas 1962
5 in by 7 in. Ink (?) on paper. Signed: Alcopley 1962 in the upper left corner. Reverse: “Xmas 1962” – Message: “A Happy 1963 for Hannah and Heinrich Love Alcopley Nina Una Dora” [signed in their own hands].
Postcard from Elizabeth Stamber
This postcard is from Elizabeth Stamber [Bard Faculty, 1959 – 1988] to Heinrich Bluecher was disovered tucked into Bernard Stamber’s Dante’s Other World; the Purgatorio as a guide to the Divine Comedy. New York University Press, 1957, now in the Hannah Arendt Collection.
Postcard from Walter Benjamin
This postcard from Walter Benjamin in San Remo to Hannah Stern (Arendt) in Paris was discovered tucked into a volume now in the Hannah Arendt Collection, Leib Seele Einheit, by Hans Prinzhorn. Copyright 1927 by Muller and Kiepenheuer Verlag, Potsdam.