Alexander "Bill" Reed

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Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
Alexander "Bill" Reed
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Bentham.

Alexander "Bill" Reed

American, died 1965
BiographyAlexander Reed, known as "Bill," studied at Black Mountain College with Anni Albers. the Summer of 1939, the Alberses made their fourth trip to Mexico in the company of their friend and Black Mountain College student Alexander ("Bill") Reed. During the summer of 1939, Reed traveled with the Alberses to Mexico, then to Veracruz where they met Anni's parents who were fleeing Nazi Germany. Reed taught at Black Mountain College from fall 1936 until 1943. He later studied and taught architecture in Boston.
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