Joseph Albers Exhibition

Today we visited this wonderful show at Amherst College's Mead Art Museum.  The museum is small, and the exhibition is not large, but it is excellent.  The box by Joseph Cornell (1903-72) on the left was my favorite object exhibited.  It's entitled Hôtel de l'Étoile, evoking a fantasy world as most of his works do.  Some may remember my mention of his recent show in London, in my blip of 16 September.


Josef Albers (1888-1976), originally from Germany, was an artist and teacher who was devoted to color. The painting on the right is one of over a thousand paintings in a series called "Homage to the Square", depicting seemingly endless combinations of color.  Most of his works in the show are relatively late and are not part of that series.  The short catalogue of the show can be downloaded for free from this site of the Amherst College Press (it's the Press's first book :)  A bit over a year ago, I in effect dedicated a blip from Romania to Albers--its square windows reminded me of him.