Portfolio, Homage to the Square, Soft Edge -- Hard Edge

This is a Portfolio. It was designed by Josef Albers. It is dated 1965 and we acquired it in 1973. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Museum of Graphic Art. It is credited Gift of the Museum of Graphic Art, New York.

Its dimensions are

44.5 × 43.8 × 1.9 cm (17 1/2 × 17 1/4 × 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in black text, front cover: JOSEF ALBERS; inner left cover: When I paint / I think and see / first and most -- color / but color as motion / Color not only accompanying / form of lateral extension / and after being moved / remaining arrested / But of perpetual inner movement / as agression -- to and from the spectator / besides interaction and interdependence / with shape and hue and light / Color in a direct and frontal focus / and when closely felt / as a breathing and pulsating / --from within; inner back cover: 1 GOLDEN GATE / 2 PALATIAL / 3 NACRE / 4 LATE / 5 PORTA NEGRA / 6 EMERAUDE / 7 PROFUNDO / 8 ARCTIC BLOOM / 9 PENDING / 10 ARRIVED; title plate: HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE / SOFT EDGE - HARD EDGE; title plate, verso: COPYRIGHT 1965 BY IVES-SILLMAN NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT THIS IS NUMBER; in graphite: 178; OF 250

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