Albers came to this country with her husband, Josef, in the late 1930s. She began her career as a student at the Bauhaus and became one of the most prominent weavers of the twentieth century. The weaving in Pasture, a relatively late work, is both richly textured and clearly articulated.
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Bottrop, Germany. The Josef Albers Museum. "Anni Albers," June 12–August 29, 1999, unnumbered cat.
Paris. Musée des Arts Décoratifs. "Anni Albers," September 20–December 31, 1999, unnumbered cat.
Jewish Museum, New York. "Anni Albers," May 28–August 20, 2000, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Anni Albers Textiles," July 13, 2004–March 2005, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Highlights from the Modern Design Collection: 1900–Present, Part II," May 23, 2011–July 1, 2012, no catalogue.
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. "Anni et Josef Albers. L'art et la vie," September 10, 2021–January 9, 2022, no. 298.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art," March 4–June 16, 2024, unnumbered cat. (fig. 3; published in MMA Bulletin 81, Fall 2023).
Henry Geldzahler in "Twentieth Century Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965–1975. New York, 1975, p. 225, ill.
Virginia Gardner Troy. Anni Albers: The Significance of Ancient American Art for her Woven and Pedagogical Work. PhD diss., Emory University. 1997, fig. 108.
Anni Albers. On Weaving. Princeton, 2017 (1st ed., 1965), p. 257, ill. p. vi (color detail), colorpl. 119.
Briony Fer inAnni Albers. Ed. Ann Coxon, Briony Fer, and Maria Müller-Schareck. Exh. cat., Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. London, 2018, pp. 28, 178, ill. p. 120 (color).
Iria Candela. "Abstraction and Andean Textiles, from Anni Albers to the Fiber Arts Movement." Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 81 (Fall 2023), pp. 32–33, fig. 33 (color) and ill. front cover (color detail).
Jackson Arn. "Warp Speed." New Yorker (April 22 and 29, 2024), p. 74, ill. (color).
K. L. H. Wells. "Looming Large: Presentations of Textile Art in Washington, DC; New York; and Chicago." Artforum 63 (September 2024).
Anni Albers (American (born Germany), Berlin 1899–1994 Orange, Connecticut)
1964
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