Homage to the Square/Red Series, Untitled III
1968
Josef Albers (American, 1888-1976)
Not on View

An influential artist and educator, Albers believed in the importance of having an experimental attitude concerning art materials and a technological approach to the study of color and design. The square-within-square format of his celebrated "Homage to the Square" series gave Albers a tireless formula for exploring color relationships and investigating how colors are transformed according to their placement with other colors. These works set a precedent in minimal art by demonstrating that pictorial values could be generated exclusively through the interaction of color in simple geometric forms.

Details

  • Artist Name: Josef Albers (American, 1888-1976)
  • Title: Homage to the Square/Red Series, Untitled III
  • Date: 1968
  • Medium: Oil on masonite
  • Dimensions: 32 x 32 in. (81.3 x 81.3 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Museum Purchase
  • Accession Number: P.1969.064
  • Copyright: © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Object Information

Josef Albers, 1968, sold 21 May 1969 to;
[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, on behalf of];
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1969-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 1975.

Albers: the Interaction of Color

  • Riverside, University of California Riverside, 1970-11-05 to 1970-12-03

Selections from the Permanent Collection

  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1971-07-13 to 1971-09-19

Recent Acquisitions, 1969

  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1969-11-24 to 1970-01-18

Serial Imagery

  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1968-09-17 to 1968-10-27
  • Henry Art Gallery, 1968-11-17 to 1968-12-22
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1969-01-25 to 1969-02-23

Learning to Look: Color

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2002-09-06 to 2003-01-06

Josef Albers

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1974-03-19 to 1974-04-14

A Look at New York

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-06-12 to 1973-07-22

A Salute to the Ferus Gallery

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1993-09-23 to 1994-03-20

Works from the Pasadena Art Museum

  • Vancouver Art Gallery, 1970-04-14 to 1970-05-10
  • Artforum, p. 39
  • Pasadena Art Museum, Recent Acquisitions 1969, 1969, no. 2 p. 4
  • Feldman, Edmund Burke, Varieties of Visual Experience, 1972, p. 298

Additional Artwork by Artist

Centennial Print: Homage to the Square Mma-2 Josef Albers 1970
Centennial Print: Pillars Josef Albers 1970
Centennial Print: Variant Mma-3 Josef Albers 1970

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