I-S JP
1972
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color screenprint on German Etching wove paper
Dimensions
image: 38.1 × 38.1 cm (15 × 15 in.) sheet: 76.2 × 76.2 cm (30 × 30 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Maclyn E. Wade
Accession Number
1976.69.17
Art Historical Context
Josef Albers' *I-S JP* (1972) is a vibrant color screenprint on German Etching wove paper measuring 15 × 15 inches for the image within a generous 30 × 30-inch sheet. Created late in the artist's life—he passed away in 1976 square composition exemplifies Albers' lifelong obsession with color perception, a theme central to his teaching and practice from the Bauhaus era through his American years at Black Mountain College and Yale. As a pioneer of geometric abstraction and color theory, Albers belonged to the Constructivist tradition, famously exploring how adjacent colors alter each other's ap...
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...