1982.15 Albers, Structural Constellation (K-8)

Planes and spaces exchange roles, defining one another through their interactive relationships. Intriguing and playful, Structural Constellation (K-8) encapsulates the modern role of art as a conceptual puzzle that exists as much in the mind as it does in the eye.

Label text on wall as of 7/18/18, CLC.  

Albers_Josef: ULAN: 500033049

New Haven (Connecticut/United States): TGN: 7014210

engraving (action): AAT: 300053829

formica (tm): AAT: 300014581

Bauhaus: AAT: 300021432

black (color): AAT: 300130920

Concrete art: AAT: 300021436

geometric abstraction: AAT: 300056509

lines (geometric concept): AAT: 300056279

mechanical properties: AAT: 300056192

modernist (European style): AAT: 300021474

perspective (technique): AAT: 300056340

planes (mathematics): AAT: 300055640

1982: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, gift of Anni Albers and the Josef Albers Foundation, Inc. [1] 

The main source for this provenance is the letter from Anni Albers and Nicholas Fox Weber of the Josef Albers Foundation, Inc., to Steven A. Nash of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, dated March 24, 1982, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records object file. Exceptions and supporting documentation are noted. 

[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983. 

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