Josef Albers

Equivocal from Homage to the Square: Ten Works by Josef Albers

1962

One from a portfolio of ten screenprints

Not on view

Albers began making his Homage to the Square painting series around 1951. The works here mark one of the first occasions he explored this imagery in print. The viewer is meant to perceive shifting depth and changes of tone at the outer and inner perimeters of these nesting squares, even though the areas are printed in solid, unmodulated color.

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Geo/Metric: Prints and Drawings from the Collection, June 11–August 18, 2008.

Medium One from a portfolio of ten screenprints
Dimensions composition: 11 1/16 x 11" (28.1 x 27.9 cm); sheet: 16 15/16 x 16 7/8" (43 x 42.9 cm)
Publisher Ives-Sillman, New Haven, CT
Printer R.H. Norton Co., New Haven, CT
Edition 250
Credit Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Object number 697.1993.4
Department Drawings and Prints

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Josef Albers

Josef Albers

American, born Germany. 1888–1976 242 works online

Josef Albers always went back to basics. As a child, he gained skills in carpentry and commercial painting by helping his father with work.

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