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Orange Meander
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After studying weaving and then teaching a the Bauhaus from 1922 to 1933, Anni Albers came to the U.S. with her husband, Josef, in 1933. She was an assistant professor of art at Black Mountain College and after 1949 lectured, wrote, and exhibited extensively on the subject of weaving. In 1963 she turned to printmaking and in 1963 and 1964 produced portfolios of lithographs at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. From 1970 she devoted her energies exclusively to graphic art, and screenprints became her principal medium. Albers's prints were an outgrowth of her previous work as a weaver. The tightly articulated optical patterns in her Meander prints seem to refer literally to weaving. Each of the Meander prints went through the press four times: first, with a background screen that laid down a solid color, then twice with the "meander" design screen in the same color in two different positions, and finally with the design screenprinted in another position in a brighter, dominant color.
- Printers
- George (Scotti) Lawther, Sirocco Screenprint Inc.
- Publisher
- Anni Albers
- Title
- Orange Meander
- Date
- 1970
- Object Type
- Medium
- Color screenprint
- Dimensions
- 711 x 610 mm (28 x 24 in.)
- Credit Line
- Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, gift of the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Charitable Foundation
- Accession Number
- 1996.74.4