Frank stella series#

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan.

Stella's work in held in major museum collections worldwide including, Tate, London Folkwang Museum, Essen Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest Kunstmuseum Basel Brooklyn Museum, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Art Institute of Chicago Hishhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. and in 2017 he was commissioned to make an installation for The Iris and B. In 2001 a monumental sculpture was installed outside the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Since the 1990s Stella has made sculpture for public spaces and developed architectural projects. Stella has exhibited his work internationally since 1959 and has been the subject of several retrospectives, most recently in 2015 at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in a show which travelled to Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas and de Young Museum, San Francisco. In 2016 a major print retrospective travelled to Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin Phillips Academy, Massachusetts and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Montgomery, Alabama. Stella now employs a vast array of techniques in his editions, including screenprinting, lithography, linoleum block, collage and hand colouring. In 1973 he had a print studio installed in his house. The controlled minimalism of his works in the late 1950s and early ’60s gave way to maximalist riots of colour later in his career with subsequent works surpassing 2D canvas to become sculptural. Stella began with lithography, making prints that expanded upon formal concerns he explored in his paintings. One of the most highly regarded post-war American painters still working today, Stella’s style has constantly evolved. He attended the Phillips Academy in Andover (1950-1954), where he studied painting with Patrick Morgan. Frank Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts, on May 12, 1936. Stella began making prints in the late 1960s, working first with master printer Kenneth Tyler at Gemini G.E.L. Frank Stella (born 1936), American painter, was one of the most dominant and influential figures in abstract painting during the 1960s through the 1990s. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s he made prints, paintings and sculptures inspired by Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick.

Frank stella series#

Over the following decades Stella went on to experiment with colour, scale, surface, and texture in his paintings, often working in series to fully explore a theme. Four of these paintings were exhibited in the groundbreaking Sixteen Americans, together with works by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg in 1959 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, who bought the paintings for their collection.

He attended Princeton University, where he earned a degree in history, before moving to New York in 1958.Īt the age of 22, he began his Black Paintings, each composed of concentric bands or stripes in black enamel house paint on raw canvas. Frank Stella was born in Massachusetts, USA, in 1936.