Josef Albers

Josef Albers
Self Portrait 
1918
lithograph
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Josef Albers
Window Picture
1921
assemblage of glass, wire, nails, mesh, found objects
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Josef Albers
Lattice Picture
1923-25
painted glass
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Josef Albers
Final Study for K Trio
1932
gouache on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Josef Albers
Four Xs in Red
1938
oil on panel
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Josef Albers
Homage to the Square: Midday
1954
oil on panel
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Josef Albers
Study for Homage to the Square: Last Century
1956
oil on panel
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Josef Albers
Homage to the Square: Enclosed Blue
1957
oil on panel
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Josef Albers (design)
Persuasive Percussion
1960
offset-print (record sleeve)
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Josef Albers
Homage to the Square: Elected
1961
oil on panel
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Josef Albers
Day and Night VIII
1963
lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Josef Albers
Interaction of Color
1963
offset-lithograph
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Josef Albers
Ferus Gallery Exhibition, Los Angeles
1964
offset-print (poster)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Josef Albers
Homage to the Square: Pending
1965
screenprint
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Josef Albers
Homage to the Square: Glow
1966
acrylic on panel
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Josef Albers
Homage to the Square: Chosen
1966
oil on panel
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Josef Albers
Study for Homage to the Square: Profundo
1966
oil on panel
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Fragment

The bird, that's fetcht from Phasis flood,

Or choysest Hens of Affricke brood;

These please our palats. And why these?

'Cause they can but seldome please. 

Whilst the Goose soe goodly white,

And the drake yeeld noe delight,

Though his wings conceited hewe

Paint each feather, as if new.

These for vulgar stomackes be,

And relish not of raritye.

But the pretious Scarus*, sought

In farthest clime; what e're is bought

With Shipwrackes toyle, ô, that is sweet, 

'Cause the quicksands handseld it.

The pretious Barbill, now groune rife,

Is cloying meat. How stale is Wife?

Deare Wife hath ne'er a handsome letter,

Sweet Mistresse soundes a great deale better.

Rose quakes at name of Cinnamon.

Unless't be rare, what's thought upon?

– Petronius Arbiter (died AD 65), translated by Richard Crashaw (ca. 1635) 

*fish found in the Euxine Sea, prized as a rarity at Rome