Artist: Frank Stella (1936 - )
Nationality: American
Movement: Minimalism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
After studying at Phillips Academy and Princeton University, Fran Stella moved to New York and became a house painter. In 1959, he began painting in a Minimalist style, creating solid blocks of color and pattern with no brushstrokes. His later paintings were reminiscent of the Art Deco period as a result of his interest in 1920’s Bauhaus design. Stella’s latest work borders on sculpture as it used three-dimensional aspects and an array of colors.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Artist: Frank Stella Title: Tahkt-I-Sulayman Variation II Date: 1969 Medium: acrylic on canvas Dimensions: H.120
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Whom Sketch, Frank Stella (United States, Massachusetts, Malden, born 1936-05-12) , 1967, Oil on canvas
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Bampur, Frank Stella (United States, Massachusetts, Malden, born 1936-05-12) , 1966, Acrylic and day-glo on canvas
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Purple Series, Frank Stella (United States, Massachusetts, Malden, born 1936-05-12) , 1972, Suite of nine lithographs
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Frank Stella The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1870-1970 color offset lithograph poster 1970
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Chocorua 1, Frank Stella (United States, Massachusetts, Malden, born 1936-05-12) , 1965-1966, Acrylic on canvas
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Getty Tomb, Frank Stella (United States, Massachusetts, Malden, born 1936-05-12) , 1959, Black enamel on canvas
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Counterpane, Frank Stella (United States, Massachusetts, Malden, born 1936-05-12) , 1989, Mixed media on board
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Frank Stella Untitled. Serigraph from Ten Works, Ten Painters published by Wadsworth Atheneum, 279/500 Screenprint 1964
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Then Water Came and Quenched the Fire, Frank Stella (United States, Massachusetts, Malden, born 1936-05-12) , 1982-1984, Lithograph and linocut
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Whale as a Dish, Frank Stella (United States, Massachusetts, Malden, born 1936-05-12) , 1989, Mixed media on board
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St. Michael’s Counterguard, Frank Stella (United States, Massachusetts, Malden, born 1936-05-12) , 1984, Mixed media on aluminum and fiberglas honeycomb
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Rozdol II, Frank Stella (United States, Massachusetts, Malden, born 1936-05-12) , 1973, Felt, canvas, paint, and cardboard on wood
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Hiragla Variation I, Frank Stella (United States, Massachusetts, Malden, born 1936-05-12) , 1969, Fluorescent-alkyd on canvas
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Frank Stella - Stilfotein 1982 Honeycomb aluminum The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Frank Stella - Line Up 1962 acrylic and graphite Hirshhorn Museum American
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Frank Stella - Darabjerd III 1967 acrylic on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Frank Stella - Union I 1966 alkyd flourescent an The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Frank Stella - Manteneia I 1968 acrylic on canvas High Museum of Art American
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Frank Stella - Jarama II 1982 mixed media on etche National Gallery of Art American
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Frank Stella - Raqqa II 1970 synthetic polymer an North Carolina Museum of Art American
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Frank Stella - Botafogo II 1975 paint on etched alum Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Frank Stella - Wolfeboro II 1996 fluorescent alkyd an Dayton Arts Institute American
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Frank Stella - Shards III 1983 mixed media on alumi The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Frank Stella - Interlagos 1983 mixed media on etche Des Moines Art Center American
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Claudine Stella-Bouzzonet Portrait of Jacques Stella, (after LeBrun) etching 17th century
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Frank Stella - Pagosa Springs 1960 copper metallic enam Hirshhorn Museum American
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Frank Stella - Le Neveu de Rameau 1974 Acrylic on canvas Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami American
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Frank Stella - Star of Persia II 1967 color lithograph on Hirshhorn Museum American
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Frank Stella - Star of Persia I 1967 color lithograph on Hirshhorn Museum American
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Frank Stella - Quaqua! Attaccati La! 1985 oil, urethane enamel Hirshhorn Museum American
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Frank Stella - Louisiana Lottery Co. 1962 synthetic polymer wi Hirshhorn Museum American
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Frank Stella - Arundel Castle 1959 enamel on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Frank Stella - Flin Flon VI 1970 Polymer and fluoresc Birmingham Museum of Art American
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Frank Stella - Concentric Squares 1966 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Frank Stella - Tahkt-I-Sulayman Variation II 1969 acrylic on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Frank Stella - The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II 1959 enamel on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Frank Stella - Giufa e la Statua de Gesso 1985 oil, urethane enamel Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Frank Stella - Union III from the Irregular Polygon Series 1966 Flourescent alkyd an The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Frank Stella - Catal Huyuk (level VI B) Shrine VI B.1 2001 aluminum pipe and ca Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Frank Stella - Gray Scramble (Single), VIII 1969 synthetic polymer pa Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Frank Stella - Agua Caliente from The Race Track Series 1971 Acrylic on canvas The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Frank Stella - Inaccessible Island Rail from the Exotic Bird Series 1977 Lithograph The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Frank Brangwyn The etched Work of Frank Brangwyn (London: The Fine Art Society, 1908) book with reproductions of etchings and drawings 1908
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La Sainte Famille (1650 après) by STELLA Jacques
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Chuck Close - Frank 1969 acrylic on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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View of Tivoli
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Frank Brangwyn Frank Brangwyn. Zwanzig graphische Arbeiten (Vienna: Artur Wolf, [1920?]) book with reproductions of drawings 1920
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Fragment d'une tête de femme by STELLA François I
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Sepp Frank Ex Libris Wilhelm Frank, (One of 10 Book Plate Etchings) etching, aquatint 1920
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Jésus guérissant le paralytique (17e siècle) by STELLA Jacques
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L'Adoration des bergers (1ère moitié 17e siècle) by STELLA Jacques
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Stella Matutina (4e quart 17e siècle ; 1ère moitié 18e siècle) by BOULLOGNE Louis le Jeune
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Frank Brangwyn An Alpine Bridge dry-point 1926
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Sidney Mackenzie Litten The Old Stella Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Repos de la Sainte Famille (1657 avant) by STELLA Jacques
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Jacques Stella Ascension of the Virgin Mary Gray washes, and brush and black ink on laid paper; a framing line in black ink early 17th century
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Gustave Macon, M. Fralicq et les Policeman anglais dans la Galerie des Cerfs le 17 avril 1929 (2e quart 20e siècle) by STELLA-PRESSE
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Frank Brangwyn Beggars #1 drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Frank Brangwyn The Hay-Cart etching and drypoint 1907

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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ASU Art Museum: Stella Lai: Let’s Stop Pretending
Stella Lai was born in 1975, in Hong Kong, and currently lives and works in San Francisco. Lai received her BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco. The artist has recently exhibited at the following venues: ...
Art Gallery of South Australia: Stella Bowen: Art, Love and War
Her marvelous self-portrait was recently given to the Art Gallery of South Australia by the artist’s niece Suzanne Brookman who, with Ms Wilkins, will be at the media preview of the exhibition.Ron Radford, Director of the Art Gallery of South A...
National Gallery of Art: Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Ein Schauspiel, 3X (1998-2001), by Frank Stella Installed
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Ein Schauspiel, 3X is one of the great sculptures of our age and will complement the family of Stella's works that we already have in the ...
: Art Dealer Monolith Leo Castelli Dies at 91
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Delay: Maja Bajevic, Pavel Braila, Freek Drent & Stella van Voorst van Beest, Roderick Hietbrink, Juul Hondius, Carla Klein, Predrag Pajdic, Anri Sala
In 2004 the European Union was expanded with ten countries. DELAY connects with this widening of the frontiers. Several artists are active in a borderland. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen gathers together work by Maja Bajevic (1967, former Yugos...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: After the Beginning and Before the End: 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono
The exhibition After the Beginning and Before the End - 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono is about these beginnings. In 222 examples of the artist’s first steps toward the finished product, this exhibition s...
Figureworks: 20th Century Figuative Works by American Women Artists
These notable artists shaped the face of American art and most are in permanent museum collections including the National Museum of American Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern of Art. ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection
The collection is marked by a passion for color, strong compositional designs, and occasionally eccentric images, with an emphasis upon several favorite artists, among them Joseph Stella, Oscar Bluemner, Charles Demuth, and Arthur Dove, each of w...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection
The first exhibition devoted solely to this form of art ever presented outside of South Asia, Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal focuses on two premier collections. One was assembled and donated to the Museum by its former Curator of Indian ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Out of the Box: 20th-Century Print Portfolios
Eleven complete print portfolios from the permanent collection provide visitors with a rare opportunity to see the creative statement of each featured artist in its ...
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art: Adrienne Outlaw
Outlaw has interviewed such art-world luminaries as Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and James Turrell. With Movements she explores how her contact with these artists led to discoveries ...
Project 4: Cornelia Schulz
Continuing also in the footsteps of artists such as Barnett Newman and Frank Stella, she sought to redefine the rectilinear orientation of the art object.  In this exhibition, Schulz presents some of her most recent paintings where abstract, biomo...
Henry Moore Institute: Job Koelewijn: Try and See it Your Way
The exhibition juxtaposes four works that are part of the same ‘family’: * Cinema on Wheels (1999), a walk-in sculpture situated outside the Institute in Victoria Gardens * Kaleidoscope (2001, Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven) in the first...
Transition: Goth Moth: Alex Michon, Cathy Lomax, Claire Pestaille, Emma Talbot, Stella Vine, Mimei Thompson, Nicky Magliulo, Shane Waltener, Tobi Deeson
Adolescent fantasy Goth girls are culled from magazines, as psychological terrors stalk the artificial landscape where knitted cobwebs in eerie corners subvert their cosy-craft roots. Iconic dark portraits identify with their subjects troubled sou...
Contemporary Arts Center: An Active Life
1 artists featured in An Active Life include Jonathan Borofsky, Christoff Büchel, Ingrid Eriksson, Nancy Evans, ...
Transition: Acid Drops and Sugar Candy: Works by Over 40 Artists
Works included in the exhibition are by Majed Aslam, Emi Avor, Paul Becker, Kiera Bennett, Anna Bjerger, Clive Brandon, Jorges Cabieses, Louise Brierley, Leigh Clarke, Sam Dargan, Annabel Dover, Sarah Doyle, Stephen Harwood, Nadia Heb...
ARTSPACE, Auckland: TIFFANY'S KYOTO A MAJOR JIM SPEERS PROJECT
A few years back Speers explained nothing by describing his works as neither ordinary objects passing themselves off as art, nor works of art passing themselves off as everyday things. Since then he has cemented his position as a key figure i...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Vision and Reality - Conceptions of the 20th Century
Louisianas story of the 20th century falls into chapters linking contemporary and classical modern art. Its point of departure is the great 20th-century avant-garde movements: Russian Constructiv...
Plus Ultra Gallery: Alois Kronschlaeger's Repercussions: A Series of Surprisingly Divisive Events
To prepare his sculptures, which playfully reference the early pinstripe paintings of Frank Stella, Kronschläger lines sheets of archival paper with a latex caulk. These evenly spaced lines then serve as measures for recording the pending actions-...
University of California-Berkeley African Studies Center: Women Emerging: A Tribute to Uganda, An Exhibition by East African Fine Artists
On-location exhibition: Selected artworks will be exhibited August 30 through December 31, 2002, at the International and Area Studies Office, 360 Stephens Hall, 8AM to 12PM and 1PM to 5PM, at University of California at Berkeley. For inform...
Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum: POP CARS. America – Europe
The Lehmbruck Museum project will be the result of in-depth research, and will present groups of work on the topic from the Gottfried Schultz VW collection, the BMW Car Collection (Warhol), the DaimlerChrysler Collection (Cars by Warhol), the ADAC (G...
Madelyn Jordon Fine Art: Ted Larsen: Urban Renewal
The title of the exhibition aims to present Larsen's objects within a framework in which to examine the work in relation to society, as well as a personal, internal conflict; "The churning world has caused me to completely re-evaluate my work an...
Transition: Room: Delaine Le Bas
Delaine’s Romany Gypsy heritage is inherent within her work, which as a contemporary artist has been something of a double-edged sword, both fuelling her and holding her back. She is perceived by the art world as an outsider artist – naïve and fol...
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery: The SCANZ Exhibition – Raranga Tangata
From an initial call to SCANZ participants for proposals for the exhibition, Mercedes Vicente, Govett-Brewster curator, and Sarah Cook, UK guest co-curator, have selected eight projects by Stella Brennan (NZ), Nina Czegledy/Greg Judelman/Daniel Ba...
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art: Glee: Painting Now
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present Glee: Painting Now, an exhibition examining artists1 renewed confidence in painting in the face of new visual technologies. A confident, irreverent, and ...
el museo del barrio: 2002 (S) Files, the biennial of El Museo del Barrio
The exhibition is co-curated by Deborah Cullen, Curator, and Victoria Noorthoorn, Curator of Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Colección Costanini, Buenos Aires . Works include traditional media, such as painting, drawing, sculptural works,...
Gamblin Artists Colors Co.: New Environmental Color -- TORRIT GREY 2001
Every year, Gamblin formulates Torrit Grey - both to recycle pigment and to focus artists on the importance of recycling - and distributes it in April in honor of Earth Day (April 22).  Dedicated to the environment of the earth, as well as the ...
Wexner Center for the Arts: Mood River: An International Exhibition Examing Impact of Design on Contemporary Life
Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin says, “In addition to being a visual feast, Mood River offers compelling evidence of the power of design to shape our sense of the world. Boldly conjoining art and design in their survey, the curators reveal ...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: New Acquisitions: Part Two Contemporary Art
This literal and sometimes even literary approach is really at the heart of contemporary art, much of which is referred to as “post-modern.” An in depth discussion of post-modernism is well beyond the scope of this short writing, but let it suffic...
McKinney Avenue Contemporary: Women Printmakers Lone Star Style: Mary Bonner & The Dallas Printmakers Guild
According to Dr Jansen-Brown, was "the first female etcher ever to exhibit at the Spring Salons of 1925 and 1926 in Paris, where she won honorary mention [awards]." The exhibition serves to highlight Bonner‚s extraordinary achievements in b...
Parker Harris: Call for Artists: Northern Print Biennale 2009
The 2009 Print Awards is open to all British and International artists whose work, or elements of their practice, encounter print. Works in any medium will be considered and the award is not restricted to 2 or 3 dimensional work. Prizes include ...
CQL Design Center: Metropolis Rise : New Art from London
Metropolis Rise : New Art from London will take place at the Moganshan art district which has been at the forefront of artistic development in Shanghai in recent years. The exhibition will then travel to DIAF 06 at 798 Space, Beijings largest inde...
Corey Helford Gallery: Literartistry: A Group Show
Participating artists to date include: Jason Shawn Alexander, Erik Alos, Chris Anthony, Chris Conn Askew, Attaboy, Anthony Ausgang, Lauren Bergman, Andrew Brandou, Dave Burke, Paul Chatem, Greg Clarke, Amy Crehore, Camilla d‚Ericco, Jason Du...
National Gallery of Art: Best Impressions: 35 Years of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.
From its beginnings, Gemini has introduced cutting-edge methods of fabrication to realize the visions of its invited artists, said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. We are pleased to present these innovative works by some of t...
van Gogh Museum: Go(gh) Modern
The presentation is subdivided into four sections, each featuring a different aspect of Van Gogh's affect on contemporary art, and includes paintings, sculptures and videos by various artists and movements - from Appel and Kiefer to Nauman and War...
Art Forum Berlin: Berlin Calling: 8th Year Under the Berlin Radio Tower
The eighth ART FORUM BERLIN, The International Fair for Contemporary Art, sets standards within a continuously expanding art fair landscape. ART FORUM BERLIN has successfully been consolidated and this year presents its cus-tomary program in...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
Laura Bartlett Gallery: Elizabeth McAlpine: White Elephant
In a new photographic piece, Hyena Stomp, McAlpine has taken individual film-frames to compose a re-rendering of the minimalist painting by Frank Stella of 1962. For her 'pigments', McAlpine has populated the surface with single frames of actors w...
Georgia O'Keefe Museum: Views of the City: 1910–1949
Museum director George G. King said, This exhibition provides the viewer a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Georgia OKeeffe, her colleagues,...
Smithsonian, National Museum of American Art and its Rewick Gallery: 11th Annual Eldredge Prize Awarded for New Interpretation of 1960s American Art
Jones argues that the artists she examines identified closely with postwar industry and corporate culture. Drawing from extensive interviews with artists and their assistants, Jones presents the idea that much of the major work of the 1960s...

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