Study for Homage to the Square (Early Rising)

Josef Albers, American (born Germany), 1888 - 1976

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1961

Oil on composition board

Overall: 40 × 39 3/4 in. (101.6 × 101 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ellen and Wallace K. Harrison, Class of 1950H, in honor of Nelson A. Rockefeller, Class of 1930

© The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

P.968.7

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower right: A 61; signed, dated and inscribed on reverse: Study for /Homage to the Square: "Early Rising"/ Albers 1961 / Ground: 5 coats of liquidex (Pert. pigment) / Painting: paints read from center: / Cadmium yellow light (Grumbacher F.) / Scheweningen Yellow Deep (Old Holladn) / Chapin Neutral *II (Shiva) all in one primary coat / direct from the tube / Varnish: Vinyl Bachadein Xylene / and Melacrylate(?) / in Tuluene / for Wallace and Ellen Harrison / August 1961

Label

Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. --Joseph Albers

Albers created his Homages series to explore how color operates in art. He made concentric square paintings for over twenty-five years, only changing the colors used in each canvas, to offer viewers the opportunity to attune themselves to how they respond to different hues. Often the works also demonstrated how colors interact with one another, as in this one where he used grey, yellow, and greyish yellow.

From the 2023 exhibition The Painter's Hand: U.S. Abstraction since 1950, curated by John Stomberg, Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director

Course History

SART 15, Drawing I, Gerald Auten, Spring 2012

SART 25, Painting I, Enrico Riley, Fall 2014

SART 31, Painting II, Enrico Riley, Winter 2015

SART 25, Painting I, Enrico Riley, Spring 2015

SART 31, 72, Painting II, III, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2019

SART 25.01, Painting I, Danielle Genadry, Summer 2022

SART 27.01, Printmaking I, Tricia Treacy, Fall 2022

College Course 35.01, Color in Art & Philosophy, Viktor Witkowski and John Kulvicki, Winter 2023

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Daniele Genadry, Summer 2023

Philosophy 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, John Kulvicki, Summer 2023

Philosophy 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, John Kulvicki, Summer 2023

First Year Student Enrichment Program - Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Francine A'Ness, Summer 2023

Exhibition History

20th Century Works from the Dartmouth Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 19-29, 1988.

Art of the 60's and 70's, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont, July 11-September 18, 2005.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 26-May 19, 2002.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 30, 1998-September 20, 1999.

Colorful Squares, Vehicles of Artistic Ideas, A Space for Dialogue 84, Xinyue Guo, Class of 2014, Kathryn Conroy Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 13-November 2, 2014.

Contemporary Art from the College Collection, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 24-March 2, 1975.

Light In Art, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 2, 1977-January 29, 1978.

Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 26,2009-March 15, 2010.

Second Stage of Modernism: Art from 1945 to the Present, William B. Jaffe, Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall, Churchill P. Lathrop, Friends, and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 6-August 16, 1987.

Selections: Contemporary Art, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 12, 1975-January 11, 1976.

Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Jaffe-Friede Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 26-April 28, 1985.

The Expanding Grid, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-August 27, 2012.

The Painter's Hand: U.S. Abstraction since 1950, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe-Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-December 16, 2023.

The Protean Century, 1870-1970, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York, New York, Under the Auspices of the Dartmouth Arts Council, February 10-28, 1970.

Publication History

Jacquelyn Bass, Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1985, p.56, no.31.

The Protean Century, 1870-1970, A Loan Exhibition from The Dartmouth College Collection, Alumni and Friends of the College [under the auspices of the Dartmouth Arts Council], M. Knoedler & Company, Inc, New York, New York, February 10-28, 1970.

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.45, no.23.

Xinyue Guo, Colorful Squares, Vehicles of Artistic Ideas, A Space for Dialogue 84, Hanover New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2014, ill. p. 1, checklist no. 1.

Provenance

Collected by Ellen Hunt Milton Harrison (1903-1995) and Wallace K. Harrison (1895-198); given to present collection, 1968.

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