Homage to the Square: Saturated Artist: Josef Albers (American, born Germany, 1888–1976, M.A. (Hon.) 1950, D.F.A. (Hon.) 1962)

1951

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on Masonite

Dimensions

23 1/4 × 23 3/8 in. (59 × 59.3 cm)
framed: 24 1/2 × 24 7/16 × 1 1/2 in. (62.2 × 62.1 × 3.8 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Katharine Ordway

Accession Number

1980.12.39

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

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Bibliography
  • William J. R. Curtis et al., Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture, eds. Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, and Stanislaus von Moos, exh. cat. (Rotterdam, Netherlands: Vitra Design Museum, 2013), 146, no. 226
  • Heinz Liesbrock, Ad Reinhardt: Last Paintings: Ad Reinhardt and Josef Albers, A Meeting, exh. cat. (Düsseldorf: Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, 2011), 111, 160, ill
  • Achim Borchardt-Hume, ed., Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006), ill
  • Achim Borchardt-Hume, ed., Albert and Maholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World, exh. cat. (London: Tate Publishing, 2006),
  • Lesley K. Baier, The Katharine Ordway Collection, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983), 88–89, no. 1
Object copyright
© 2012 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre)

Subject

square

Signed

On recto bottom right: "A 51", (on verso in gray paint: "Albers '51") not incl. in cat.

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