Walter Gropius, letter to Norma K. Stahle, page 1

In 1937, Norma K. Stahle, director of the Chicago Association of Arts and Industries, wrote to former Bauhaus director Walter Gropius, asking him to open a new design school along Bauhaus lines in Chicago. But upon fleeing Nazi Germany, Gropius had accepted a teaching position at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He recommended his former Bauhaus colleague László Moholy-Nagy for the job instead.