Summer Art in New York: Josef Albers, Robert Rauschenberg & Frank Stella

Don't miss Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper at The Morgan Library & Museum. It is a gem of a show. Sixty oil studies on paper include sketches from the 1930s-early 1940s for his Adobe series and preparatory works for Homage to the Square from the 1950s-1970s. The painterly quality, intimate scale and color experimentation reveal a rarely seen side of Albers's work. The studies are strikingly different from the cool and austere paintings that represent the final stage of the artist's process. The Morgan is the only U.S. venue for the exhibition.

Also check out two superb gallery exhibitions on the same block on the Upper East Side: Robert Rauschenberg: North African Collages and Scatole Personali c. 1952 at the Craig F. Starr Gallery and Frank Stella: New Work at FreedmanArt. Then stop by Via Quadronno for a cappuccino and panini.
Enjoy!

The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue
http://www.themorgan.org
Albers on view through October 14, 2012

Craig F. Starr Gallery
5 E. 73rd St.
http://www.starr-art.com
Rauschenberg on view through August 10, 2012

FreedmanArt
25 E. 73rd St., 3rd Floor
http://www.freedmanart.com
Stella on view through September 27, 2012

Via Quadronno
25 E. 73rd St., 1st Floor
http://viaquadronno.com