Development in Rose II

Textiles

1952

Anni Albers (American, born Germany, 1899–1994)
New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Anni Albers was particularly interested in how a textile was visually defined by its technique and woven structure. In Development in Rose II, she incorporated discontinuous wefts- horizontal threads that do not travel across the entire width of the textile-punctuating the otherwise strict geometry of the piece. Knotting them in place, she added visual depth and texture.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Anni Albers
Title: Development in Rose II
Place: Connecticut (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1952
Medium: Linen, warp-stripe, weft-bonded plain weave with open work and self-patterned by areas of discontinuous wefts, discountinuous single interlocking wefts, and gauze weave backed in areas with plain weave and/or main warp and ground weft floats
Inscriptions: Inscription: Anni Albers
Dimensions: 62 × 45.2 cm (24 3/8 × 17 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Laurance H. Armour, Jr. and Margot B. Armour Family Foundation
Reference Number: 1970.345
Copyright: © 2018 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Zӧe Ryan, editor, In a Cloud, In a Wall, In a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago with Yale University Press, 2019), 165, cat. 51 (ill.).

Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, The Renwick Gallery of The National Museum of American Art, The Woven and Graphic Art of Anni Albers, June 12–Sept. 20, 1985.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Focus on Fiber Art: Selections from the Growing 20th Century Collection, Oct. 6, 1993–Feb. 27, 1994.
Düsseldorf, Germany, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen am Grabbeplatz, Anni Albers, June 7-Sept. 2, 2018; travelled to London, Tate Modern, Oct. 11, 2018-Jan. 27, 2019.
Art Institute of Chicago, In a Cloud, In a Wall, In a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury, Sept. 6, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020, cat. 51.

The artist; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.

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