1954–1977, undated

Books

The Books series includes handwritten and typed drafts, page and plate proofs, correspondence, contracts, notes, lists, publicity, and printed materials pertaining to books written by or in collaboration with Josef Albers, including various editions of each. Books include the monograph Josef Albers by Eugen Gomringer, in the production of which Josef played a large part (note that this subseries contains nearly all of the subgroup’s correspondence between Eugen Gomringer and Josef Albers); Despite Straight Lines by Francois Bucher; Formulation: Articulation, a print portfolio included in this subseries due to extensive text by Josef; his most important publication and among his most important teaching contributions, Interaction of Color; Poems and Drawings; and Search versus Re-Search: Three Lectures by Josef Albers at Trinity College. This subseries contains a wealth of material demonstrating Josef’s commitment to art and art education.

Description

Folder

Formulation: Articulation | 1972, 1965–1976
2 Portfolios. New Haven: Ives: Sillman; New York: Harry N. Abrams
- Handwritten typescript drafts
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  69
  Folder
  1
- Project statement
  Dates
  1970
  Box
  69
  Folder
  2
- Harry N. Abrams correspondence and contract
  Dates
  1965–1976
  Box
  69
  Folder
  3
- Letters in response to gifts
  Dates
  1972–1975
  Box
  69
  Folder
  4
- Lists of gift recipients
  Dates
  1972, undated
  Box
  69
  Folder
  5
- Portfolio folders
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  69
  Folder
  6
- Content description and process
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  69
  Folder
  7
- Publicity
  Dates
  1972
  Box
  69
  Folder
  8
- Prospective exhibition correspondence
  Dates
  1972–1974
  Box
  69
  Folder
  9
Poems and Drawings | 1954–1976, undated
New Haven: Readymade Press 1958. Second Ed.,
New York: George Wittenborn 1961. [See IIIb. Various for poems]
- Handwritten notes
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  69
  Folder
  10
- List of gift recipients
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  69
  Folder
  11
- Publicity
  Dates
  1960
  Box
  69
  Folder
  12
- Correspondence and drawings
  Dates
  1954–1976
  Box
  69
  Folder
  13
Despite Straight Lines | 1960–1979, undated
François Bucher. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1961.
Revised Edition. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 1977. German Edition.
(Trotz der Geraden), Bern: Benteli-Verlag, 1961.
- Early transcript and handwritten draft with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  70
  Folder
  1
- Composite drafts
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  70
  Folder
  2
- Composite German drafts
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  70
  Folder
  3
- Early transcript draft with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  70
  Folder
  4
- Yale University Press proofs with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  1961
  Box
  70
  Folder
  5
- Handwritten notes and correspondence drafts
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  70
  Folder
  6
- François Bucher correspondence
  Dates
  1960–1976
  Box
  70
  Folder
  7
- Yale University Press memorandum of agreement and correspondence
  Dates
  1961–1973
  Box
  70
  Folder
  8
- Lists for Yale University Press of people to receive books
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  70
  Folder
  9
- Letters in response to gifts
  Dates
  1961–1967
  Box
  70
  Folder
  10
- Fan mail
  Dates
  1962–1971
  Box
  70
  Folder
  11
- Benteli Verlag correspondence
  Dates
  1961–1974
  Box
  70
  Folder
  12
- German edition, typescript with handwritten corrections, notes
  and drawings
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  70
  Folder
  13(1)
- Wittenborn and Company correspondence regarding German edition
  Dates
  1968–1973, undated
  Box
  70
  Folder
  13(2)
- Lists for Benteli Verlag of people to receive books
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  70
  Folder
  14
- Correspondence with Kyoshi Asano of Charles E. Tuttle Company regarding Japanese translation
  Dates
  1973–1974
  Box
  70
  Folder
  15
- Eastman and Eastman correspondence
  Dates
  1975–1976
  Box
  70
  Folder
  16
- Advertisements
  Dates
  1961, 1964, 1979
  Box
  70
  Folder
  17
- Reviews
  Dates
  1962–1979
  Box
  70
  Folder
  18
- MIT Edition
  Typescript carbons, typescript photocopy and handwritten drafts
  of additional text with photograph
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  70
  Folder
  19
- MIT Edition
  Typescript and handwritten drafts of additional text
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  70
  Folder
  20
- MIT Edition
  Typescript and typescript photocopy of additional text, changes and instructions
  Dates
  1974
  Box
  70
  Folder
  21
- MIT Edition
  Correspondence
  Dates
  1968–1976
  Box
  70
  Folder
  22
- MIT Edition
  Correspondence (with Anni Albers) March–September
  Dates
  1976–1977
  Box
  70
  Folder
  23
- MIT Edition
  Photocopy of books with additions and corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  70
  Folder
  24
- MIT Edition
  Gallery proofs with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  70
  Folder
  25
- MIT Edition
  MIT Press author questionnaire
  Dates
  March 1976
  Box
  70
  Folder
  26
Josef Albers | 1957–1975, undated
Eugen Gomringer, Essays by Josef Albers, Clara Diament de Dujo, Will Grohmann, Norbert Lynton, and Michel Seuphor. New York: George Wittenborn, 1968. German Edition, Starnberg: Josef Keller Verlag, 1968. French Edition, Paris: Dessain et Tolra. 1972.
- Empty folders with JA handwritten notes
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  71
  Folder
  –
- Wittenborn and Company Edition
  Composite draft with corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  71
  Folder
  1
- Wittenborn and Company Edition
  Lists and notes
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  71
  Folder
  2
- Wittenborn and Company Edition
  Wittenborn and Company correspondence and invoices
  Dates
  1968–1970, undated
  Box
  71
  Folder
  3
- Wittenborn and Company Edition
  Typescript photocopy, corrected with annotations
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  71
  Folder
  4
- Wittenborn and Company Edition
  Eugen Gomringer correspondence (includes Gomringer
  family correspondence)
  Dates
  1957–1975
  Box
  71
  Folder
  5–7
- Wittenborn and Company
  Miscellaneous materials from Eugen Gomringer
  Dates
  1971, undated
  Box
  71
  Folder
  8
- Josef Keller Verlag edition
  Correspondence
  Dates
  1963–1970, undated
  Box
  71
  Folder
  9–10
- Josef Keller Verlag edition
  Notes
  Dates
  1963, undated
  Box
  71
  Folder
  11
- Josef Keller Verlag edition
  Lists of people to receive books
  Dates
  1969–1970
  Box
  71
  Folder
  12
- Josef Keller Verlag edition
  Architectural commissions. Handwritten and typed notes
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  71
  Folder
  13
- Josef Keller Verlag edition
  Photographs, sketches and photocopies
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  71
  Folder
  14
- Correspondence
  Dates
  1961–1975
  Box
  71
  Folder
  15
- Handwritten and typed notes
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  71
  Folder
  16
- Invoices
  Dates
  1969
  Box
  71
  Folder
  18–21
Search versus Re-Search: Three Lectures by Josef Albers at Trinity College | 1967-1975
Hartford, Trinity College Press, 1969
- Correspondence
  Dates
  1967–1975
  Box
  72
  Folder
  1
- General Education and Art Education: Possessive or Productive
  Handwritten, typescript, typescript carbon drafts with
  handwritten corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  72
  Folder
  2
- General Education and Art Education: Possessive or Productive
  Typescript carbon intermediate drafts with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  72
  Folder
  3
- One Plus One Equals Three and More: Factual Facts and Actual Facts
  Handwritten early drafts
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  72
  Folder
  4–5
- One Plus One Equals Three and More: Factual Facts and Actual Facts
  Typescript carbon intermediate drafts with handwritten corrections and letter from Trinity College Publications to JA March 9
  Dates
  1967
  Box
  72
  Folder
  6
- Typescript mimeograph fragments with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  72
  Folder
  7
- Art Studies as Basic Training: Observation and Articulation,
  handwritten, typescript, typescript carbon drafts with
  handwritten corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  72
  Folder
  8
- "Design" plates, handwritten text
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  72
  Folder
  9
- Typescript carbon intermediate drafts with handwritten correction
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  72
  Folder
  10
- Typescript final draft with handwritten correction
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  72
  Folder
  11
- Page proofs with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  72
  Folder
  12
- Dustjacket text
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  72
  Folder
  13
- Preface text
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  72
  Folder
  14
- Lists of people to receive books
  Dates
  1969
  Box
  72
  Folder
  15
- Publicity
  Dates
  1969
  Box
  72
  Folder
  16
- Trinity College lecture typescript transcripts from 1/4 reel tapes
  [see XII. Audiovisual sound recordings]
  Dates
  1965
  Box
  72
  Folder
  17
- Trinity College lectures publicity
  Dates
  1965
  Box
  72
  Folder
  18
- Correspondence
  Chicago, Columbia and Yale (London) University Presses
  Dates
  1963–1964
  Box
  73
  Folder
  12
- Albers: Reflections, incomplete and unfinished book project.
  Yale University Press correspondence and photocopies of
  various JA writings
  Dates
  1970–1974
  Box
  78
  Folder
  1
- Preliminary materials for unfinished books of writings
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  78
  Folder
  2
- Lists of people to receive books and reprints
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  78
  Folder
  3
- Lists of people and institutions to receive books
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  78
  Folder
  4
- Letters in response to gifts of various books
  Dates
  1969–1973
  Box
  78
  Folder
  5
- Lists and acknowledgments of books and reprints sent to institutions
  Dates
  1946–1961
  Box
  78
  Folder
  6
Interaction of Color | 1956–1974, undated
Boxed set with 90 color folios and commentary. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, German Edition (Grundlegung Einer Didaktik des Sehens), Starnberg: Josef Keller Verlag, 1972. Interaction of Color. Small Edition New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1971, Revised 1974. German Edition (Grundlegung Einer Didaktik des Sehens), Köln: Verlag M. Dumont Schauberg, 1970, 1977. French Edition (L'Interaction des Couleurs), Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1974. Spanish Edition (La Interaction del Color), Madrid: Alianza Forma, 1975. Japanese Edition, Tokyo: David Sha, 1975. Finnish Edition (Varien Vuorovaikutus), Helsinki: Vaapa Taidekoulu, 1978. 1956-1976
- Early text draft, typescript carbon with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  73
  Folder
  1–2
- Intermediate text drafts typescript and carbon with handwritten corrections with binder
  Dates
  1963
  Box
  73
  Folder
  3–5
- Handwritten, typescript carbon and photocopies of text draft fragments
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  73
  Folder
  6
- Chapter 10 text typescript, typescript carbon and photocopy with handwritten notes (includes German, French and Spanish translations)
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  73
  Folder
  7
- Correspondence
  Yale University Press
  Dates
  1957–1971
  Box
  73
  Folder
  8
- Correspondence
  Various correspondence
  Dates
  1957–1963
  Box
  73
  Folder
  9
- Correspondence
  Former students
  Dates
  1962, undated
  Box
  73
  Folder
  10
- Correspondence
  Regarding Paul Klee's Hanging Fruit
  Dates
  1962, 1973
  Box
  73
  Folder
  11
- Correspondence
  Letters in response to gifts
  Dates
  1963–1971
  Box
  73
  Folder
  13
- Rockefeller Foundation grant. Correspondence: grant application typescript, carbon and handwritten drafts: grant announcement policy; and expenses
  Dates
  1956–1959, undated
  Box
  73
  Folder
  14
- Yale University Press contract
  Dates
  1963
  Box
  73
  Folder
  15
- Royalty statements (includes Despite Straight Lines) [see Box 70]
  Dates
  1963–1969
  Box
  73
  Folder
  16
- List of recipients
  Dates
  1966, undated
  Box
  73
  Folder
  17
- Correspondence regarding permission to reproduce
  Dates
  1966–1967
  Box
  74
  Folder
  1
- "Interaction of Color," ArtNews, March 1963 (excerpt, "in visual perception")
  Dates
  March 1963
  Box
  74
  Folder
  2
- "Interaction of Color," Ulm September 1963 (excerpt "In visual perception")
  Dates
  September 1963
  Box
  74
  Folder
  3
- Publicity with JA's handwritten notes
  Dates
  1963, 1965
  Box
  74
  Folder
  4
- Publicity with accompanying correspondence
  Dates
  1963–1974
  Box
  74
  Folder
  5
- Publicity
  Dates
  1970s, undated
  Box
  74
  Folder
  6
- Mimeograph text typescript with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  1971
  Box
  74
  Folder
  7
- Correspondence
  Dates
  1971–1974
  Box
  74
  Folder
  8
- Yale University Press correspondence
  Dates
  1972–1974
  Box
  74
  Folder
  9
- Royalty statements and correspondence
  Dates
  1972–1974
  Box
  74
  Folder
  10
- Munsell Color Company correspondence and 2.5 YR chart
  Dates
  1972
  Box
  74
  Folder
  11
- "Teaching of Interaction of color," typescript carbon with handwritten notes
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  74
  Folder
  12(1)
- Folder labeled "Single Statements on Color" includes
  Color in Freshman Foundation Course at the Rhode Island School of Design," by Florence Beeley
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  74
  Folder
  12(2)
- Folder labeled "Single Statements on Color" includes
  "Color Studies," by JA, a description of 16 sample studies from
  Color Class; handwritten notes on color
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  74
  Folder
  12(2)
- Folder labeled "Single Statements on Color" includes
  notes on exhibition, "Seeing Color"
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  74
  Folder
  12(2)
- Folder labeled "Single Statements on Color" includes
  Typescript with handwritten corrections on "Teaching of Interaction of Color"
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  74
  Folder
  12(2)
- Folder labeled "Single Statements on Color" includes
  "Color and Composition Studies with Fall Leaves," by JA
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  74
  Folder
  12(2)
- Folder labeled "Single Statements on Color" includes
  Typescript and typescript carbon statements by JA: "Ich habe nicht die Absicht, ein weiteres Farbsystem zu finden oder zu konstruieren," "In meinem Farbkursus bin ich zu dem Schluss gekommen," "Anyone who feels able to predict the effect of any applied color"
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  74
  Folder
  12(2)
- Folder labeled "Single Statements on Color" includes
  Typescripts with handwritten corrections "The physio-psychological phenomenon of the so-called after-image" and "Color is the most relative medium in art"
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  74
  Folder
  12(2)
- Text and Plate proofs and photocopies with handwritten notes and corrections and transparencies, with list of names of students who contributed color studies
  Dates
  1962–63, 1972
  Box
  116
  Folder
  no folders
Interaction of Color (German Edition) | 1970, 1972
- Early text draft, handwritten and typescript with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  74
  Folder
  13
- Text typescript photocopy drafts with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  74
  Folder
  14–17
- Draft typescript carbon with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  74
  Folder
  18
- Draft typescript carbon with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  74
  Folder
  19
- Draft typescript carbon with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  75
  Folder
  1–2
- Draft typescript carbon with handwritten corrections
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  75
  Folder
  3
- Handwritten, typescript and mimeograph composite draft
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  75
  Folder
  4
- Josef Keller Verlag and Herbert Geier correspondence
  Dates
  1970–1974
  Box
  75
  Folder
  5
- Correspondence
  Dates
  1970–1973
  Box
  75
  Folder
  6
- Publicity
  Dates
  1975
  Box
  75
  Folder
  7
- Japanese edition (1975) correspondence
  Dates
  1970–1974
  Box
  75
  Folder
  8
- French edition (1974) correspondence
  Dates
  1974
  Box
  75
  Folder
  9
- Finnish edition (1978) correspondence
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  75
  Folder
  10

Books

Formulation: Articulation | 1972, 1965–1976
2 Portfolios. New Haven: Ives: Sillman; New York: Harry N. Abrams

Poems and Drawings | 1954–1976, undated
New Haven: Readymade Press 1958. Second Ed.,
New York: George Wittenborn 1961. [See IIIb. Various for poems]

Despite Straight Lines | 1960–1979, undated
François Bucher. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1961.
Revised Edition. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 1977. German Edition.
(Trotz der Geraden), Bern: Benteli-Verlag, 1961.

Josef Albers | 1957–1975, undated
Eugen Gomringer, Essays by Josef Albers, Clara Diament de Dujo, Will Grohmann, Norbert Lynton, and Michel Seuphor. New York: George Wittenborn, 1968. German Edition, Starnberg: Josef Keller Verlag, 1968. French Edition, Paris: Dessain et Tolra. 1972.

Search versus Re-Search: Three Lectures by Josef Albers at Trinity College | 1967-1975
Hartford, Trinity College Press, 1969

Interaction of Color (German Edition) | 1970, 1972

Books

Formulation: Articulation | 1972, 1965–19762 Portfolios. New Haven: Ives: Sillman; New York: Harry N. Abrams

Poems and Drawings | 1954–1976, undatedNew Haven: Readymade Press 1958. Second Ed.,New York: George Wittenborn 1961. [See IIIb. Various for poems]

Despite Straight Lines | 1960–1979, undatedFrançois Bucher. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1961. Revised Edition. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 1977. German Edition.(Trotz der Geraden), Bern: Benteli-Verlag, 1961.

Josef Albers | 1957–1975, undatedEugen Gomringer, Essays by Josef Albers, Clara Diament de Dujo, Will Grohmann, Norbert Lynton, and Michel Seuphor. New York: George Wittenborn, 1968. German Edition, Starnberg: Josef Keller Verlag, 1968. French Edition, Paris: Dessain et Tolra. 1972.

Search versus Re-Search: Three Lectures by Josef Albers at Trinity College | 1967-1975Hartford, Trinity College Press, 1969

Interaction of Color (German Edition) | 1970, 1972

Formulation: Articulation | 1972, 1965–1976
2 Portfolios. New Haven: Ives: Sillman; New York: Harry N. Abrams

Poems and Drawings | 1954–1976, undated
New Haven: Readymade Press 1958. Second Ed.,
New York: George Wittenborn 1961. [See IIIb. Various for poems]

Despite Straight Lines | 1960–1979, undated
François Bucher. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1961.
Revised Edition. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 1977. German Edition.
(Trotz der Geraden), Bern: Benteli-Verlag, 1961.

Josef Albers | 1957–1975, undated
Eugen Gomringer, Essays by Josef Albers, Clara Diament de Dujo, Will Grohmann, Norbert Lynton, and Michel Seuphor. New York: George Wittenborn, 1968. German Edition, Starnberg: Josef Keller Verlag, 1968. French Edition, Paris: Dessain et Tolra. 1972.

Search versus Re-Search: Three Lectures by Josef Albers at Trinity College | 1967-1975
Hartford, Trinity College Press, 1969