Midnight + Noon V
1964
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View on museum website →Medium
color lithograph on Arches wove paper
Dimensions
image: 40.1 x 40.1 cm (15 13/16 x 15 13/16 in.) sheet: 47.9 x 52 cm (18 7/8 x 20 1/2 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dorothy J. and Benjamin B. Smith
Accession Number
1983.18.100.5
Art Historical Context
Josef Albers' *Midnight + Noon V (1964) is a striking color lithograph on Arches wove paper measuring 40.1 x 40.1 cm in its image area. Printed in the final years of Albers' prolific career, square-format work belongs to his *Midnight + Noon*, part of a larger portfolio (CG-W) now housed in the National Gallery of Art generously gifted by Dorothy J. and Benjamin B Smith. As a master of the Bauhaus and influential educator at Black Mountain College and Yale, Albers was renowned for his pioneering investigations into color theory. In this lithograph, Albers explores the perceptual interplay of ...
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...