White Line Square LXXIa (Gray/Black)

Artist Josef Albers (German, 1888 - 1976)

Date1972

MediumScreenprint

DimensionsImage: 17 3/8 x 17 3/8 in. (44.1 x 44.1 cm) Sheet: 28 x 28 in. (71.1 x 71.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Karen and Robert Hoehn

CultureAmerican

MarkingsChop bottom right margin of a cubic H

PortfolioHomage to the Square

Object numberPC2001.02.11

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionA series of four square blocks of colors, nestled inside each other. At center is a black square followed by: dark navy blue, sage green, and lastly, a darker shade of sage green on top of a cream sheet of paper. Albers's superimposed squares of colors started as paintings in 1950, and were, in part, a mode of studying color theory in his artistic practice.

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