1926–1975
1926–1975
Project Files
The series Project Files consists of materials pertaining to prints, paintings, glass works, lettering, and various other projects completed by Josef Albers, often in collaboration with a printmaker or other organization. Of note among the materials are correspondence, print documentation, lists and notes related to print portfolios made in collaboration with Gemini G.E.L., Ives-Sillman, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, and Tyler Workshop. The bulk of material relating to Josef’s lettering is found in this subseries, containing studies, writings, photographs and printed materials on his Kombinationschrift alphabet. Other highlights include a clipping with Josef’s design for the National Gallery of Art Science Stamp Competition, a drawing of the IV Bienal Americana de Grabado-Santiago Chile poster design, an example of the Container Corporation logo design, and instructions with drawings to build a wren house.
Description
Folder
Prints
- American Block Print Catalogue. Aquarium correspondence
and printDates
1939Box
42
Folder
1
- Brooklyn Museum of Art. American Graphic Artists of the Twentieth
Century No. 8: Josef Albers Prints 1915–1970, notes and Jo
Miller’s typed photocopy draft with JA’s handwritten correctionsDates
undatedBox
42
Folder
2
- Editions Denise René price list and bulletins for 1966 Homage
au Carré printsDates
1966–1967Box
42
Folder
3
Gemini G.E.L.
- White Line Squares Series II, complete series
Dates
1966Box
42
Folder
4
- Correspondence, print documentation prices
Dates
1971–1975Box
42
Folder
5
- Embossed Linear Constructions, incomplete series
Dates
1969Box
42
Folder
6
- White Line Squares, correspondence, print documentation, shipping
slips, notes and publicityDates
1966–1967, 1973Box
42
Folder
7(1)
- White Embossings on Grey, brochures
Dates
1971Box
42
Folder
7(2)
- Catalogue Raisonné
Dates
1971Box
42
Folder
8
- Embossed Linear Constructions, White Line Squares, and White
Embossing on Gray, correspondence, print documentation,
price lists, shipping slips, notes, sketches, publicity and photocopy
of introduction to Embossed Linear ConstructionsDates
1968–1973, undatedBox
42
Folder
9
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. “Josef Albers Honors
the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,” correspondenceDates
1969–1974Box
42
Folder
10
Ives-Sillman
- Price lists and inventories
Dates
1971–1974Box
42
Folder
11
- Homage to the Square: Ten Works by Josef Albers,
publication announcementDates
1962Box
42
Folder
12(1)
- Josef Albers: Ten Variants, publication
Dates
1967Box
42
Folder
12(2)
- Invoices and checks
Dates
1966–1973Box
42
Folder
13
- 1970 Birthday Square, two prints and envelope with
handwritten notesDates
1970Box
42
Folder
14(1)
- 1973 LXXIIIa and LXXIIIb prints celebrating 85th birthday,
announcementDates
1973Box
42
Folder
14(2)
- 1969 Homage to the Square I-S d, publication announcement
Dates
1969Box
42
Folder
14(3)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art. Red Orange Wall print order form
Dates
1970Box
42
Folder
15
Tamarind Lithography Workshop
- Day and Night: Homage to the Square, print specifications
Dates
1963Box
42
Folder
16
- Midnight and Noon, announcement and print specifications
Dates
1964Box
42
Folder
17
- Correspondence, notes, fact sheets and press releases
Dates
1960–1970Box
42
Folder
18
Tyler Workshop
- Gray Instrumentation I, print documentation and announcement
Dates
1974Box
42
Folder
19
- Gray Instrumentation II, print documentation and announcement
Dates
1975Box
42
Folder
20
- Webb and Parsons print lists
Dates
1971, undatedBox
42
Folder
21
- Portfolios, lists
Dates
undatedBox
42
Folder
22
- Handwritten notes
Dates
undatedBox
42
Folder
23
- Miscellaneous notes and lists regarding gifts, deliveries, prices, and
titles of prints and portfoliosDates
undatedBox
42
Folder
24
- Exhibition labels
Dates
1940sBox
42
Folder
25
- Enclosures for prints being sent as gifts
Dates
undatedBox
42
Folder
26
- Graphic Portfolios, lists
Dates
circa 1971–1976Box
43
Folder
1
Paintings
- Homage to the Square proportion sketch
Dates
undatedBox
43
Folder
2
- Shipping and delivery lists
Dates
1961–1971, undatedBox
43
Folder
3
- Price lists
Dates
1963–1973, undatedBox
43
Folder
4
- Variants dimensions and sketches
Dates
undatedBox
118
Folder
3
- Homage to the Square dimensions and sketch
Dates
undatedBox
118
Folder
3
- Variants dimensions and sketches
Dates
undatedBox
118
Folder
4–5
- Variants labels removed by Martina Yamin
Dates
undatedBox
118
Folder
6
Glass works
- Handwritten statement on untitled glass assemblage (Circle 1921)
in Hirshhorn CollectionDates
1972Box
43
Folder
5
- Statement on City from Jahresbericht 1960 of Zürcher
Kunstgesellschaft. Typescript, typescript carbon and typescript
mimeograph with German and English translationDates
undatedBox
43
Folder
6
- “Untitled statement on the Glass Paintings” from Josef Albers
Portfolio, Vol. 2. Typescript carbon and mimeographDates
undatedBox
43
Folder
7
- Statement on In the Water, from Abstract and Surrealist Art in
America by Sidney Janis. Typescript carbon with handwritten notesDates
1943Box
43
Folder
8
- Statement on construction of Skyscrapers, handwritten
Dates
undatedBox
43
Folder
9
- Photocopies of articles regarding JA’s glass works (includes
copy of “zu meinem glas-wandbildern” in a bis z 30, Cologne,
February 1933.)Dates
1933–1934Box
43
Folder
10
- “Abstrakte Kompositionen auf opakem Glas,” Glaswelt
Dates
November 1958Box
43
Folder
11
- City offprints
Dates
undatedBox
43
Folder
12
- Interlocked / Façade offprints
Dates
undatedBox
43
Folder
13
- Correspondence regarding glass works
Dates
1961–1980Box
43
Folder
14
- Correspondence regarding damaged works
Dates
1934Box
43
Folder
15
- Lists of glass work titles and framed dimensions
Dates
circa 1950–1970Box
43
Folder
16 (1)
- Photographs of Josef Albers' glass works, returned from the MOMA June 2016 (photos by JA (?) and Erich Consemüller)
Dates
undatedBox
43
Folder
16 (2)
Lettering
- Studies
Dates
circa 1926Box
43
Folder
17
- Study, “Im Jahre 1832…”
Dates
circa 1926Box
43
Folder
18
- Stencil typeface "Schablonenschrift," leaflet offprint 1926
(includes photocopy of article "Zur Ökonomie der Schriftform" published in Offset No, 7)Dates
1926Box
43
Folder
19
- Design for universal typeface
Dates
circa 1926Box
43
Folder
20
- Correspondence and notes regarding lettering
Dates
1949, 1960, undatedBox
43
Folder
21
- Typografia, No. 1 and No. 5 with photocopies of pages,
November–December 1931, September–October 1932Dates
1931–1932Box
43
Folder
22
- Photograph of exhibition catalogue cover for “Internationale
Avantegarde 1927–1929,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
(JA lettering is used for catalogue cover)Dates
1963Box
43
Folder
23
- Photocopy of study for Schlablonenschrift from Offset No. 7
Dates
1926Box
43
Folder
24
- Glass lettering, circa 1928. Photographs with handwritten description,
typescript carbon writing and photocopies of lettering and writingDates
circa 1965, undatedBox
43
Folder
25
- “Hand and Eye are Symbolic of the Visual Arts”
Dates
undatedBox
43
Folder
26
- Kombinationschrift as represented by Photo-Lettering, Inc.
Dates
1961Box
43
Folder
27
- Kombinationschrift packets put together by JA comprised of
reproductions of its appearanceDates
undatedBox
43
Folder
28
- “Kombinationschrift ‘3’” in special edition of Bauhaus, photocopies
Dates
January 1931Box
43
Folder
28
- Reproductions of lettering demonstration charts
Dates
undatedBox
43
Folder
29
Woodcuts, lithographs and machine engravings
- Structural Constellations. Drawings
Dates
undatedBox
43
Folder
29
- List
Dates
undatedBox
43
Folder
34(2)
- List (photocopy) of machine engraved Structural Constellations
with hand drawn diagramsDates
undatedBox
43
Folder
35
- Structural Constellations. Reproductions of drawing
announcements and reproductionDates
1962, undatedBox
43
Folder
36
- Line Intaglios, lists and drawings
Dates
1968, undatedBox
43
Folder
37
- Sonnige Pfingsten and Ich wünsche ein glücklich Friedensjahr/Josef
Albers, notes, photographs and magazine clippingDates
undatedBox
43
Folder
38
- Die Oberfläche, Baden-Baden/Agis Verlag. Correspondence and
drawingsDates
1964–1967Box
44
Folder
1
- Washburn Bible (Bradbury Thompson) Correspondence and publicity
Dates
1960–1975Box
44
Folder
2
- National Gallery of Art Science Stamp Competition Clippings.
Dates
1963–1964Box
44
Folder
3
- “The Critic and the Visual Arts,” The American Federation of Arts
Biennial Convention (1965) American Art Poster catalogue and
advertisementDates
1968Box
44
Folder
4
- League of Women Voters poster. Correspondence and contract
Dates
1969Box
44
Folder
5
- IV Bienal Americana de Grabado-Santiago Chile poster,
correspondence, drawing, and notesDates
1969Box
44
Folder
6
- 1972 Olympic Games poster design. Correspondence, contract,
notes and publicityDates
1969–1973Box
44
Folder
7–8
- Graphic Arts USA stamp. Invoices [see Bradbury Thompson]
Dates
1974Box
44
Folder
9
- Command Records. Correspondence and publicity
Dates
1963Box
44
Folder
10
- Lists of things to do
Dates
undatedBox
44
Folder
11
- Contact prints with negative image of JA Prints
Dates
undatedBox
44
Folder
18(1–2)
- Plate rubbings made by JA
Dates
undatedBox
118
Folder
8
- Miscellaneous notes and dimensions
Dates
undatedBox
118
Folder
9
Armchair
- Typescript and typescript carbon notes with drawings
Dates
circa 1926Box
43
Folder
30
- Article from TVAR No. 1 with handwritten notes on article
Dates
1949Box
43
Folder
31
Wood frames
- Sketches
Dates
undatedBox
43
Folder
32
- Sketches of raw wood frames from Braxton Art Company
Dates
undatedBox
43
Folder
33
Furniture
- Handwritten notes (see Box 34 Folder 1)
Dates
undatedBox
43
Folder
34(1)