Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): A 49; signed, dated, and inscribed (verso): Indicating Solids / Albers '49 / [Artist's description of media]
the artist, New Haven and Orange, Conn. (1949–72; his gift to MMA)
New York. Charles Egan Gallery. "Albers: Paintings in Black, Grey, White," January 24–February 12, 1949, not in brochure [possibly this picture].
New York. Museum of Non-Objective Painting. "Loan Exhibition," June 20–October 9, 1950, no. 1.
Hartford, Conn. Wadsworth Atheneum. "Josef and Anni Albers: Paintings, Tapestries, and Woven Textiles," July 8–August 2, 1953, no. 30 (lent by the artist).
New Haven. Yale University Art Gallery. "Josef Albers: Paintings, Prints, Projects," April 25–June 18, 1956, no. 24 (lent by the artist).
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. "IV Bienal," September 22–December 30, 1957, not in catalogue.
Washington, D.C. Washington Gallery of Modern Art. "Josef Albers: The American Years," October 30–December 31, 1965, no. 25 (lent courtesy of Mr. Albers and the Sidney Janis Gallery, New York).
New Orleans. Isaac Delgado Museum of Art. "Josef Albers: The American Years," January 23–February 27, 1966, no. 25.
San Francisco Museum of Art. "Josef Albers: The American Years," June 2–26, 1966, no. 25.
Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Josef Albers: The American Years," July 8–September 7, 1966, no. 25.
Waltham, Mass. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. "Josef Albers: The American Years," September 23–October 29, 1966, no. 25.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970," October 18, 1969–February 8, 1970, no. 3 (lent by the artist).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Josef Albers at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: An Exhibition of His Paintings and Prints," November 19, 1971–January 11, 1972, not in catalogue.
Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop. "Josef Albers. Huldigung an das Quadrat (Josef Albers: Homage to the Square)," October 19, 2022–February 26, 2023.
E[laine de]. K[ooning]. "5 Stars for February." Art News 47 (February 1949), p. 15 [possibly this picture], generally discusses works in Exh. New York 1949.
Margaret Lowengrund. "Variations on Albers." Art Digest 23 (February 1, 1949), p. 14 [possibly this picture], generally discusses works in Exh. New York 1949.
Thomas B. Hess. "Introduction to Abstract." 1951 Art News Annual XX 49 (November 1950), pp. 139–40, ill., reproduces it with the credit line Egan Gallery.
B[elle]. K[rasne]. "Non-Objectives, 1950." Art Digest 24 (August 1, 1950), p. 18, ill.
George Heard Hamilton. Josef Albers: Paintings, Prints, Projects. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. New York, 1956, pp. 28, 47, no. 24, fig. 30.
Gerald Nordland. Josef Albers: The American Years. Exh. cat., Washington Gallery of Modern Art. Washington, D.C., 1965, pp. 22, 46, no. 25, ill. p. 18.
Eugen Gomringer. Josef Albers: His Work as Contribution to Visual Articulation in the Twentieth Century. New York, [1968], p. 104, ill. p. 114.
Irving Finkelstein. "The Life and Art of Josef Albers." PhD diss., New York University, 1968, p. 151 n. 5, pp. 160–63, 364, fig. 118.
Henry Geldzahler in "Twentieth Century Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965–1975. New York, 1975, pp. 216–18, ill.
Josef Albers inJosef Albers. Ed. Getulio Alviani. Milan, 1988, p. 24, reproduces screenprint based on this painting [see Ref. Danilowitz 2010].
Brenda Danilowitz. The Prints of Josef Albers. A Catalogue Raisonné 1915–1976. Rev. ed. (1st ed., 2001). Manchester, Vt., 2010, pp. 33, 179, fig. 28 (color).
Josef Albers (American (born Germany), Bottrop 1888–1976 New Haven, Connecticut)
1963
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