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Wing, Natasha

An Eye for Color: The Story of Josef Albers

40 pp. | Holt | September, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8050-8072-8 $16.99

(1) K-3 Illustrated by Julia Breckenreid. This simply told biography of the father of color theory covers Albers's formative years, from his childhood in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Germany to the 1975 publication of his book Interaction of Color. Brechenreid's paintings illuminate the story both with examples of color interaction and with representational scenes from the artist's life, always employing her subject's preferred flat colors and geometric shapes. Bib., glos.

Reviewer: Lolly Robinson | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2010