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Josef Albers
[German-born American Abstract Painter and Designer, 1888-1976]
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Josef Albers Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Josef Albers available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW! Many works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City Click "View all" to see a total of 46 works online
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW! "Artists in Depth" page for Josef Albers
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Wide Light, 1962 (In the "Screenprint" section)
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
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
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
Quadrat Bottrop - The Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany (in German) 
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Josef Albers at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. Homage to the Square: Temprano, 1957
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
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
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
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland NEW!
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York Untitled (blue/green)
Indiana State University Art Collection
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York Homage to the Square: Soft Resonance
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Works from the Gemini G.E.L. prints online catalogue raisonné
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Homage to the square: Autumn echo
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma Golden Gate, 1965
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pomona College Museum of Art, California Click on "View objects by this artist"
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
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 NEW!
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska Study for Homage to the Square, Early Diary
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
State Museums of Berlin Homage to the Square - On the way, 1967
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image) Casablanca B
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles The artworks aren't labelled, but 8 of these look like the work of Josef Albers
Villa Croce Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy (in Italian) 
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales Homage to the Squares. Stele and Patina, 1961
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
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) 
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut
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 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine Influence, 1964
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
The Art Story
"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
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 The Prints of Josef Albers: A Catalogue Raisonne 1915-1976
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 Josef Albers in Black and White
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