Josef AlbersAmerican, 1888–1976I-S a
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Where is “I-S a” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- 1981.382
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- Art Institute of Chicago
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In the life of Josef Albers
The whole life1954–1973
Fireplaces and façades with the architect King-lui Wu
Albers created decorative designs for buildings by the Yale professor and architect King-lui Wu: geometric fireplaces for the Rouse (1954) and DuPont (1959) houses, the façade of the Manuscript Society, a Yale secret senior society (1962), and a design for Mt. Bethel Baptist Church (1973).
1965–1967
A MoMA show tours the Americas
Albers's work was in the group show “The Responsive Eye” (1965), and a major Albers exhibition organised by the Museum of Modern Art travelled through South America, Mexico and the United States in 1965–1967.
22 June – 5 July 1968
Oral history interview for the Archives of American Art
In a long oral history interview Albers declared: “Art is not to be looked at. Art is looking at us.”
27 June 1968 – 6 October 1968
Exhibition: 4. documenta
1969–1970
Gives his papers to the Smithsonian
Albers donated his papers, documents from 1929 to 1970, to the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.
8 December 1969 – 24 February 1970
“The Graphic Constructions” at MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art in New York showed the solo exhibition “The Graphic Constructions of Josef Albers”.
![Oskar Schlemmer; [Schlemmer] in the Master’s Council; [Schlemmer] with Wittwer, Kallai, and Marianne Brandt, Preliminary Course Exhibition; [Schlemmer] and Tut, Josef Albers, 1928-30/1932](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjMzNzk1NyJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=0cbde6ed2e4731ed)
