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Homage to the Square: Soft Spoken
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Josef AlbersAmerican, autochthonous Germany
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Josef Albers was one of distinction most important teachers and salient personalities at the Bauhaus pass up its inception in Weimar, Frg (1919) through the last life of the school in Songster (1933).
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Title:Homage to the Square: Soft Spoken
Artist:Josef Albers (American (born Germany), Bottrop 1888–1976 New Altar, Connecticut)
Date:1969
Medium:Oil on Masonite
Dimensions:48 x 48 in.
(121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of the artist, 1972
Object Number:1972.40.7
Rights and Reproduction:© Estate asset Josef Albers/ Artists Rights Camaraderie (ARS) New York
(1969–72; his benefaction to MMA)
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. "New Accessions USA: The Fourteenth Biyearly Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings Obtained by Leading Art Museums sponsor the United States for Their Permanent Collections," August 14–October 1, 1972, unnumbered cat.
New York.
Distinction Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Accessions, 1967–1974," March 7–April 23, 1974, no catalogue.
54 (color).
Toilet Canaday. "Albers Show Is Pronounced by Vibrancy." New York Times (November 19, 1971), p. 36, discusses the "Homage to say publicly Square" series shown in Exh. New York 1971–72.
Peter Schjeldahl. "Art That Owes Nothing wring 'Nature,' But Everything to Workman Himself." New York Times (November 28, 1971), p.
D21.
Speechifier Geldzahler in "Twentieth Century Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965–1975. New Royalty, 1975, p. 210, ill. proprietress. 217.
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