Gray Instrumentation II j
1975
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View on museum website →Medium
color screenprint on Arches 88 wove paper
Dimensions
image: 27.94 × 27.94 cm (11 × 11 in.) sheet: 48.26 × 48.26 cm (19 × 19 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Maclyn E. Wade
Accession Number
1977.73.2.10
Art Historical Context
Josef Albers' *Gray Instrumentation II j*1975) is a captivating color screenprint on Arches 88 wove paper, measuring 11 × 11 inches in its square image format. Created near the end of the artist's life—this German-born modernist died in 1976—this work belongs to a portfolio now housed in the National Gallery Art, generously gifted by Dr. and Mrs. Maclyn E. Wade. The precisely rendered composition exemplifies Albers' lifelong fascination with color perception, a theme central to his teaching at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale. Albers, a pioneer of color theory, explored how hues ...
About the Artist
Josef Albers
Josef Albers, born on March 19, 1888, in Bottrop, Westphalia, into a Roman Catholic family of craftsmen, received early practical training from his father, Lorenzo Albers, a housepainter and carpenter, mastering skills in engraving glass, plumbing, wiring, and printmaking. After working as a schoolteacher in Bottrop from 1908 to 1913, he trained as an art teacher at the Königliche Kunstschule in B...