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Alberich i Escardivol, Montserrat

 Person

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough / Alberich i Escardivol, Montserrat., 1932

 Item
Identifier: CC-58166-10001419
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1932

Monastero de Montserrat / Alberich i Escardivol, Montserrat., 1935

 Item
Identifier: CC-58665-10001900
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1935

Speaking of Pictures: Typewritten 'paintings' are the remarkable work of a lady police clerk / Alberich i Escardivol, Montserrat., 1953

 Item
Identifier: CC-58167-10001420
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1953

Vista de la Catedral i el Pia de la Seu / Alberich i Escardivol, Montserrat., 1960

 Item
Identifier: CC-58677-10001913
Scope and Contents

Images were taken from tiff files supplied to the Sackners by the museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

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