Download or read book Fannie Hillsmith written by James Thompson and published by Black Mountain Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fannie Hillsmith was personally picked out by Josef Albers to replace him as a 1945 summer teacher at Black Mountain College, where she taught alongside Lyonel Feininger and Ossip Zadkine and was succeeded by Robert Motherwell. Inspired principally by Klee and Cubism, she exhibited frequently and successfully with the American Abstract Artists as one of its most notable female members.