Albers has influenced generations of artists, not only through his teaching but also through his work. The test of an artist’s impact is the degree to which they inspire other artists in their own work, and Albers’ influence can be seen in the work of a wide range of contemporary artists. German artist Imi Knoebel, who is known for his works that are about color, recently made new stained glass for the Cathedral of Reims in France which had been bombed during WWII. French artist Daniel Buren’s geometric installations now include works using transparent color. Icelandic and Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, whose work often takes color as its central concern, made Rainbow Panorama for the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark. In this glasswork on the roof of the museum viewers actually walk through a circular walkway made of glass and view the city through the spectrum of color. American artist Spencer Finch perhaps is closest to Albers’ thought in his work Color Test, 2014. Finch used two layers of transparent Fuji film printed in a geometric pattern that filter the white light of LEDs behind them. This work bears a relationship to Albers’ notion of a luminous glass work on the scale of a wall painting (it is 30 x 30 inches) but I like to think Albers would have enjoyed Finch’s work The River That Floats Both Ways, 2009 which is in an existing building on the Highline in New York City. It includes 700 panes of rectangular glass that “represent the colors of the Hudson River over 700 minutes in a single day.”