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Original works by Josef Albers available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
9 works by Josef Albers
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
3 works by Josef Albers online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Wide Light, 1962
(In the "Screenprint" section)
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Josef Albers at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
10 works by Josef Albers
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Homage to the Square: Stepped Foliage
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Quadrat Bottrop - The Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany (in German) 
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Homage to the Square: Temprano, 1957
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design, Berlin
Description of Albers' Material studies course taught at the Bauhaus school 1923-1933
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
3 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Calderara Foundation Collection, Milan, Italy
3 works online
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City
Mini-site for a 2005 exbibition (click "Visit the website")
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Many works online
Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Pending
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
4 works online
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Untitled (blue/green)
Indiana State University Art Collection NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Josef Albers in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Homage to the Square: Soft Resonance
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Josef Albers at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Astatic, woodcut, 1944
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Golden Gate, 1965
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Homage to the Square, 1967
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England
Homage to the Square No 5, 1964
San Diego Museum of Art, California
Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "A"
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Study for Homage to the Square, Early Diary
Josef Albers at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Casablanca B
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles NEW!
The artworks aren't labelled, but 8 of these look like the work of Josef Albers
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Web Sites Dedicated to the Artist:
The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut
Miscellaneous Sites:
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
Homage to the Squares. Stele and Patina, 1961
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Josef Albers 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Biography only
Resource Library Magazine
Joseph Albers in Black and White
Josef Albers at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1968 interview from the Oral History project
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
Interaction of Color: Revised Edition
look inside
The Prints of Josef Albers: A Catalogue Raisonne 1915-1976
look inside
Josef Albers in Black and White
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