Printed Materials

This series consists of published articles on or mentioning Josef Albers or of interest to Josef Albers. Included among the materials are photostats of articles made by and grouped together by Josef. Many of the materials include Josef’s handwritten comments. Of note among the materials are New Yorker cartoons with references to Josef’s work.

Description

Folder

- Photostats of printed materials on or by JA from disassembled
  envelope
  Dates
  various, undated
  Box
  98
  Folder
  1–12
- Artlover announcement 1936
  Dates
  1936
  Box
  99
  Folder
  1
- Print, fall 1945
  Dates
  1945
  Box
  99
  Folder
  2
- Cover of Interiors, January 1947 (featuring JA print Seclusion)
  Dates
  1947
  Box
  99
  Folder
  4
- Announcement of JA 60th birthday in Westphalian newspaper
  Dates
  1948
  Box
  99
  Folder
  5
- Press clippings about JA lectures (Cincinnati Times and Richmond
  Times-Dispatch)
  Dates
  1949
  Box
  99
  Folder
  6
- "Albers Paints a Picture" by Elaine de Koonight, Art News,
  November 1950 offprints and copies typescript (not by de Kooning)
  Dates
  1950
  Box
  99
  Folder
  7
- Announcements of JA appointment to Yale (Christian Science
  Monitor, New York Herald Tribune, The New York Times, The
  Summer Crimson) offprint from catalogue: Collection of
  the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920, Yale
  University Art Gallery, 1950
  Dates
  1950
  Box
  99
  Folder
  8
- Intro, Volume II, Number I (Albers is mentioned in "Museum
  Keepers, Professional Art Touts & The Rue de la 57" by Paul Lett)
  Dates
  1952
  Box
  99
  Folder
  9
- Photocopy of JA's entry in the Künstler Lexicon by Hans Vollmer;
  offprint of "Josef Albers" in the New Mexico Quarterly,
  Winter 1953
  Dates
  1953
  Box
  99
  Folder
  10
- Photocopy and tranlsations of articles on JA color lecture "The
  Magic of Color" given in Munich in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  and the Schwäbische Donauzeitung, January 1964
  Dates
  1954
  Box
  99
  Folder
  11
- Printed material (includes copy of The College Art Journal from
  which "Nature and the Art of Josef Albers" by Jean Charlot has
  been excised, photocopy of pages from The Naked Truth and
  Personal Vision by Bartlett Hayes Jr., excerpt from article on
  JA in Nueva Visión)
  Dates
  1955
  Box
  99
  Folder
  12
- Print material (includes "Albers: Impersonalization in perfected
  form" by Michael Loew in Art News, photocopies of brief articles
  on JA in both Art Newsand Architectural Design
  Dates
  1956
  Box
  99
  Folder
  13
- "Painter Joseph [sic] Albers, Ambassador of Color" (article on JA
  in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegram) announcement of acquisition of
  Unconditioned (Homage to the Square) in the Bulletin of
  Associates of Fine Arts at Yale University
  Dates
  1957
  Box
  99
  Folder
  14
- "The Artist as Collector", article featuring JA and the Alberses'
  pre-Columbian art collection by Andre Emmerich, Art in America,
  Summer 1958
  Dates
  1958
  Box
  99
  Folder
  15
- Article celebrating JA's 70th birthday in Westfalenspiegel, March 1958
  Dates
  1958
  Box
  99
  Folder
  16
- Printed material (includes articles about JA for his 70th birthday by
  Will Grohmann (typescript), Max Bill (in Werk) and in various
  German newspapers, also Yale Alumni Magazine featuring
  descriptions of art classes taught by JA, Si Sillman and others)
  Dates
  1958
  Box
  99
  Folder
  17
- Printed material (includes announcement of JA receipt of the
  Conrad-von-Soest-Preis of 1958 in the Dülmener Heimatblätter,
  "What Happened to Geometry?" by Sidney Tillim in Arts
  Magazine, and review of JA gallery lecture in Yale and New
  Haven papers)
  Dates
  1959
  Box
  99
  Folder
  18
- Printed material (includes article critical of JA art as "tiring" in Critical,
  announcements of JA visits and lectures in Germany)
  Dates
  1960
  Box
  99
  Folder
  19
- Printed material (includes articles in Dutch by Will Grohmann
  and E. Bergen, The Square by Bruno Munari)
  Dates
  1961
  Box
  99
  Folder
  20
- Printed material (includes Homage to the Square II in Los Angeles
  County Museum of Art Bulletin, articles on JA by Margit Staber
  and Richard Lippold)
  Dates
  1962
  Box
  99
  Folder
  21
- German and English typescripts of "Die Welt von Josef Albers/
  The World of Josef Albers" by Iwao and Mityiko Yamawaki
  (from Graphic Design), press clippings of "Exit Hofmann Left,
  Enter Albers Right" in Arts Magazine
  Dates
  1963
  Box
  99
  Folder
  22
- Printed material (includes front and back covers of Art
  Newsfeaturing Homages to the Square and a leaf study from
  Interaction of Color, articles about Interaction of Color, articles
  celebrating JA 75th Birthday)
  Dates
  1963
  Box
  99
  Folder
  23
- Printed material (includes "Op Art: Pictures that Attack the Eyes"
  in Time, and cover of Yale Alumni Magazine featuring JA wall
  sculpture)
  Dates
  1964
  Box
  99
  Folder
  24
- Printed material (includes articles about JA lithograph stolen and
  recovered from exhibition at Trinity College, articles mentioning
  JA by Una Johnson and Katherine Kuh)
  Dates
  1965
  Box
  99
  Folder
  25
- Printed materials (includes articles about JA lecture at University of
  Southern Florida)
  Dates
  1966
  Box
  99
  Folder
  26
- Bell and Howell Annual Report, featuring JA and Interaction of Color
  Dates
  1967
  Box
  99
  Folder
  27
- “Josef Albers” by Hans Hildebrandt (Das Kunstwerk), offprints,
  typescript, and English translation
  Dates
  1957
  Box
  99
  Folder
  28
- “Les carrés magiques d’Albers / Albers” by Jean Clay, Réalités,
  offprints in French and English, typescript in German
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  100
  Folder
  1
- Printed materials (includes articles celebrating JA’s 80th birthday)
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  100
  Folder
  2
- Printed materials (announcements of JA’s 80th Birthday in
  newspapers and magazines)
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  100
  Folder
  3
- Newspaper clippings about the Albers’ visit to Westphalia and
  Bottrop in 1968
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  100
  Folder
  4
- Newspaper clippings about gifts of JA art to Bottrop
  Dates
  1969–1972
  Box
  100
  Folder
  5
- Photocopy of letter to editor about JA teaching in Bottrop in
  1922–1923 printed in Rhur-Nachrichten
  Dates
  1969
  Box
  100
  Folder
  6
- Articles on JA in Westfalenspiegel
  Dates
  1958–1969
  Box
  100
  Folder
  7
- Articles on JA in Westfalenspiegel (also includes press clippings
  about Josef Albers – Das Werk des Malers und Bauhausmeisters
  als Beitrag zur visuellen Gestaltung im 20. Jahrhundert by
  Eugen Gomringer)
  Dates
  1969
  Box
  100
  Folder
  8
- Printed material (includes Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photos of JA
  printed in Journal of the Archives of American Art, “Op-Kunst
  und / oder perzeptueller Effekt” by JA in Kunst + Unterricht)
  Dates
  1969
  Box
  100
  Folder
  9
- Printed material (includes typescript and reprint of article on JA by
  Sam Hunter published in Vogue) and Bulletin of the
  Metropolitan Museum of Art January, 1970; with image of
  a JA Structural Constellation.
  Dates
  1970
  Box
  100
  Folder
  10
- Printed material (includes article on JA in Die Kunst und das
  schöne Heim, articles on JA by Grace Glueck, Gerald Norland,
  Werner Spies, Douglas Davis, Barbara Catoir)
  Dates
  1971
  Box
  100
  Folder
  11
- Article by Werner Spies on Giorgio Morandi that mentions JA
  Dates
  1971
  Box
  100
  Folder
  12
- Printed material (includes press clippings on JA exhibitions and
  auction sales, “Encounters with Artists” by Alexander Eliot
  (former JA student at BMC)
  Dates
  1972
  Box
  100
  Folder
  13
- Articles from German newspapers on JA and JA’s 85th birthday
  Dates
  1973
  Box
  100
  Folder
  14–15
- Printed material (includes clippings of advertisements from galleries
  and investors interested in buying JA artwork, articles on JA from
  Artis and Aesthetic Education)
  Dates
  1974
  Box
  100
  Folder
  16
- Photocopied excerpt from Malerei nach 1945 by Wieland Schmied
  Dates
  1972
  Box
  100
  Folder
  17
- Article critical of Malerei nach 1945 by Hans Klinkel, New York Times
  article about acquisitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Dates
  1975
  Box
  100
  Folder
  18
- Article about a small exhibition on JA held at the Josef-Albers-
  Gymnasium in Bottrop
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  100
  Folder
  19
- Undated (includes duplicates of other printed material in boxes
  99 and 100)
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  100
  Folder
  20
- Undated (“Huldigung an das Quadrat” typescript)
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  100
  Folder
  21
- New Yorker cartoons with JA references
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  100
  Folder
  22
- JA work displayed in background in homes
  Dates
  1960–1961
  Box
  100
  Folder
  23
- “Art at 410 Park Avenue,” Chase Manhattan Bank brochure
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  100
  Folder
  24
- JA for sale in publications
  Dates
  1968, 1973, undated
  Box
  115
  Folder
  1(1)
- Transcript of radio show on JA’s Homage to the Square: Blue Depth
  (includes correspondence with Richard Price)
  Dates
  circa 1970
  Box
  115
  Folder
  1(2)
- Publications with JA prints
  Dates
  1970, undated
  Box
  115
  Folder
  2
- Color slides catalogues
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  115
  Folder
  3
- Ralph M. Pearson Courses by Mail, Critical Appreciation Course II
  (includes letter)
  Dates
  1950–1951
  Box
  115
  Folder
  5