Josef Albers

Above the Water

1944

Abstract geometric shapes with overlapping white rectangles and a dark angular polygon on a textured background.
Abstract geometric shapes with overlapping white rectangles and a dark angular polygon on a textured background.

Josef Albers, Above the Water, 1944. Woodcut, sheet: 16 1/16 × 13 1/8 in. (40.8 × 33.3 cm) Image: 13 3/16 × 9 7/8 in. (33.5 × 25.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marcel Breuer 71.205. ©The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1944

Classification
Prints

Medium
Woodcut

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 1/16 × 13 1/8 in. (40.8 × 33.3 cm) Image: 13 3/16 × 9 7/8 in. (33.5 × 25.1 cm)

Accession number
71.205

Edition
11/35

Publication
Printed by Biltmore Press

Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marcel Breuer

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

API
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