"Calnagor"
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26 by 26 inches
Color Screenprint
Edtion 18/34
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Frank Stella
Born 1936
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Born in Malden, Massachusetts, Frank Stella became a leading Abstract Expressionist in New York in the 1950s and 60s and later adopted more complex formats with shaped canvases and geometric arrangements.
Most characteristic of him are his changing styles and subjects within the bounds of abstraction, and likely, he has more range than any other well-known late 20th-century artist. In his constant explorations, he has been described as going from "minimalist" to "maximalist."
He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts where he studied with Patrick Morgan and Princeton University, where he was a student of William Seitz and Stephen Greene.
In 1958, he moved to New York and was early influenced by Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline and later by Barnett Newman. A key promoter of his work as well as that of other radical modernists in the 1960s was gallery owner, Leo Castelli.
Stella did his signature "Black Series" and in the 1970s, "Aluminum Series" with shaped canvases and bright, fluorescent colors, a reaction against his earlier sombre works. In 1970 at the age of thirty three, he was given his first retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and that same year he began his three-dimensional relief paintings.
He has also done some set design work for avant-garde dancer Merce Cunningham and for the revived musical "Pajama Game" in 1999. That same year, in Miami, Florida, he completed his first architectural project which is the band shell for the new arena on the bay front. The object in the shape of a spiral-cut beach hat is 34- feet tall.
He is a print maker of the subjects and styles of his paintings. One of his series is called "Indian Bird," and derives from one of his favorite pastimes, bird watching.
His work is in many collections including the Chicago Art Institute, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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