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“TO DESIGN ISTO PLAN AND ORGANIZE,
TO ORDER,TO RELATE ANDTO CONTROL”
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ALBERS, JOSEF. Archive of 11 items, each to Nicolas Apgar: 7 Autograph Letters
Signed, “J. Albers” or “JosefAlbers,” one with a small ink drawing * Two books Signed and
Inscribed * Autograph Note Signed, “J.A.” * Brief Autograph Manuscript, unsigned. The
letters, concerning the preparation and anticipated publication of his book,
The Interaction of
Color
(1975). Together 8 pages, oblong 8vo or 4to, personal stationery; folds. The books:
Bucher and Albers.
Despite Straight Lines
, “For Nicolas and Nancy Apgar / JosefAlbers /
XII. 61,” on the half-title * Albers.
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, “For Nicolas Apgar / Happy
NewYear 1970 / JosefAlbers,” on a preliminary leaf. Each square 4to, cloth backed or full
cloth, worn; dust jacket, worn. New Haven, 1961; Hartford, 1969.The note, written in the
blank lower margin of a Typed Letter Signed by Anni Albers to Apgar: “I am so glad / to
have you / in my ‘Interaction’.” 1 page, oblong 8vo. New Haven, 10 November 1963.The
manuscript, a quotation from his
Despite Straight Lines
with other notes, on a small slip of
paper, beginning “To design is to plan and organize, to order, to relate and to control . . . .”
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pages, 16mo, written on the recto and verso. Np, nd.
[New Haven], 1961-70
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26 February 1961: “. . . I am keeping still your color studies. But only now it seems that the color
book is going to be printed. By theYale Press . . . . I am quite sure that your excellent gradation study
in black-gray-white will get in . . . .”
22 September 1961:“. . . [T]he color book is going. . . .Today we decided what it is going to contain.
And thatYale Press wants to make it as I wish. So it will have 80 large size folders with less or more
than 200 color reproductions most of them students studies and most silkscreen. . . . It may take a year
to produce. . . . [I]t may cost up to $100, so, institutions will be the customers. . . . [M]y book ‘Poems
and Drawings’ . . . came out in its second edition . . . .They want to bring out soon also my ‘Selected
Writings.’ And next month the Yale Press publishes a small book, ‘Despite Straight Lines’ . . . about
my linear constructions . . . . And next month The [Sidney] Janis Gallery NewYork is showing my
new paintings. . . .You see they keep me busy. . . .”
19 February 1963:“Soon you will receive an announcement of theYale Press re my book ‘Interaction
of Color’, which is to appear May 1. . . . I wish to print in it as many names as possible of the stu-
dent authors of the studies reproduced . . . . I need the name and address of the girl who found those
gray paint chip[s] with rounded corners and arranged them to a gradation study [holograph diagram in
left margin]. . . .”
10 July 1964:“. . . I wonder whether it would stimulate you to write sometime a few sentences about
my teaching (which could be printed) . . . .”
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. . .Occupied now with too many exhibitions and too many prints. I must postpone reading . . . .”
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