Window Picture

The artist, Weimar, Germany, 1921-New Haven, Connecticut, 7 June 1968

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 7 June 1968-1972

Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

BAUHAUS, Weimar, Germany. 1921 or 1922. (Exhibition of student works).

[Possibly in Bauhaus group show in 1929: Albers exhibited a group of "Fenster-Bilder," but impossible to identify HMSG's.]

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York [circulating exhibition]. "The Bauhaus: How It Worked," 1939-1940, no cat. (lent by Herbert Bayer; returned to the artist). Tour: ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 10 April-8 May 1939; UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, 14 July-4 August; FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, Tallahassee, 1-22 October; ART ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS, 1-22 November; LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, Baton Rouge, 1-22 December; HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, 2-23 January 1940; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, 6-27 February; SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART, 8-29 March; MILLS COLLEGE, Oakland, 3 April-5 May; WILLLIAMS COLLEGE, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 18 May-8 June.

[Possibly in: MARGARET BROWN GALLERY, Boston. "Religious Art Today," 9-31 December 1954, no. 21 (Albers, Two Compositions in Glass, Bauhaus, 1921, lent by the artist, Connecticut), no ills.]

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, p. 658, no. 393, colorpl.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Josef Albers: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 27 September 1979-23 March 1980, no cat.

SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Josef Albers: A Retrospective," 25 March-29 May 1988, no. 42, p. 104.

PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION, Venice. "Josef Albers: Glass, Color, and Light," 30 March-10 July 1994, no. 3, color ill. Tour: PALAZZO DELLE ESPOSIZIONI, Rome, 21 July-3 October; IVAM CENTRE JULIO GONZALES, Valencia, 3 November-8 January 1995; SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York, 7 June-17 September; SMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, Northampton, Massachusetts, Fall 1995.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration," 13 February-11 April 2010, no cat.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Over, Under, Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913-Present," 18 April-8 September 2013, no cat.

VILLA HUGEL, Essen, Germany. "Josef Albers: Interaction," 16 June-7 October 2018, cat.

LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), p. 658, no. 393, colorpl.

BORCHARDT-HUME, ACHIM, et al. Albers and Moholy-Nagy: from the Bauhaus to the New World (London: Tate Publishing, 2006), pl. 2, p. 10.

GARIMORTH, JULIA, ed., et al. Anni et Josef Albers: L’Art et la Vie (Paris: Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, 2021), no. 1, color ill. p. 31.