 Albers continued to paint and write, staying in New Haven with his wife, textile artist, Anni Albers, until his death in 1976.Accomplished as a designer, photographer, typographer, printmaker, and poet, Albers is best remembered for his work as an abstract painter and theorist.He favored a very disciplined approach to composition, especially in the hundreds of paintings and prints that make up the series, "Homage to the Square".