Stored in Reed Altemus portfolio box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to an article in Life Magazine July 20, 1953, the artist (1912-1973) worked in the 1930s to 1950s as a typist in the Barcelona police department. Coming home to her apartment after work, she sat down at an old Underwood typewriter and made true images from copies of old paintings and photographs using 17 different colored ribbons and a mixture of letters and punctuation marks without requiring brush or pencil retouching. She typed on gesso coated canvas. The vividly colored typewriter pictures were commissioned by Barcelona art patrons. An internet search failed to uncover any of her work in Spanish museums. The individual typewriter characters were often blurred by the varnish finish sprayed on the completed pictures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This reproduction was provided to the Sackner Archive by Fernando Alcolea who scanned the image from Spanish ESPASA CALPE Universal Enciclopedia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edited and designed by Liz Was, text by Swoh Allen, and drawings by A.W.Vandenburgh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book reprints selections of Albrecht d's writings from 1963 - 1970. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Laura Lopez Fernandez wrote the introduction to this catalogue. She visited the Sackner Archive in December 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jessy Kendall designed the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A substantial portion of this book deals with Allen's mother's chemotherapy. This copy is unsigned and unnumbered. Another copy held by the Sackner Archive is signed and numbered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book originally was supposed to be the periodical Neptune No.2 (Neptune No.1 is held by the Sackner Archive). The front cover is stencil cut with the word NERVOUS and the back cover is stencil cut with the word SYSTEM. The handwritten, obsessive text is concerned with the emotions. Kurt Allerslev describes Nervous System in correspondence with Marvin Sackner that "the end result is a beautifully charged multiply printed edition of ten. Nervous System smells of ink and sweat sweet sour electricity. Lush dense compositions explore the interconnectedness of nerve form and letterform." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.