Josef Albers

Ascension

1942

Black nested rectangular lines form a stepped geometric column on a white background.
Black nested rectangular lines form a stepped geometric column on a white background.

Josef Albers, Ascension, 1942. Lithograph, sheet: 23 3/4 × 19 in. (60.3 × 48.3 cm) Image: 17 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (43.8 × 21 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Philip Morris Incorporated 74.85. ©The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1942

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 23 3/4 × 19 in. (60.3 × 48.3 cm) Image: 17 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (43.8 × 21 cm)

Accession number
74.85

Series
Graphic Tectonics

Edition
30/30

Publication
Printed by Reinhard Schumann

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from Philip Morris Incorporated

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

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