Josef Albers (American/German, 1888-1976) "Interaction of Color"

Provenance Note: The Estate of Adele E. Shepard represents the accumulated holdings of two of America's most historically distinguished families, reflecting over two centuries of New England and New York intellectual, civic, and political life.
On her maternal side, Adele was a direct descendant of the Dwight family of Connecticut. Timothy Dwight IV (1752-1817) served as eighth President of Yale College, and his brother Theodore Dwight (1764-1846) was a prominent Federalist statesman and journalist - both contemporaries of President George Washington. Adele's Dwight lineage is formally substantiated by The Adele E. Shepard Collection, donated by her during her lifetime to Yale Divinity School.
On her paternal side, Adele descended from the Shepard family of Dansville, NY - whose ancestral Greek Revival home (c. 1823) is now the Shepard Memorial Library, listed on the National Register of Historic Places - and from Colonel Nathaniel Rochester (1752-1831), founder of the City of Rochester, NY. Her father, Charles Shepard II (1900-1989), was a distinguished Rochester patent attorney and dedicated genealogist who preserved family materials spanning multiple generations.

Josef Albers (American/German, 1888-1976)
Josef Albers was a pioneering artist and educator best known for his Homage to the Square series, which explored the complexities of color relationships and theory. Born in Bottrop, Germany, he studied and later taught at the Bauhaus, working alongside Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, before emigrating to the United States in 1933. Albers taught at Black Mountain College and Yale University, influencing a generation of artists including Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly. His 1963 book Interaction of Color remains a seminal text in contemporary art education. Albers’s works are held in major collections worldwide, including MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Tate Gallery.