Frank Stella (b. 1936), Effingham II, 1966

Exhibition : “Frank Stella : a Retrospective” @ The Whitney Museum of American Art

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“Frank Stella : a Retrospective” @ The Whitney Museum of American Art opens on October 30th 2015 and will run until February 7th 2016

The Museum will present a career retrospective of Frank Stella (b. 1936), one of the most important living American artists. This survey will be the most comprehensive presentation of Stella’s career to date, showcasing his prolific output from the mid-1950s to the present through approximately 120 works, including paintings, reliefs, maquettes, sculptures, and drawings. Co-organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Whitney, this exhibition will feature Stella’s best-known works alongside rarely seen examples drawn from collections around the world. Accompanied by a scholarly publication, the exhibition will fill the Whitney’s entire fifth floor, an 18,000-square-foot gallery that is the Museum’s largest space for temporary exhibitions.

For more information please visit: http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/FrankStella

Frank Stella’s bio

Frank Stella (b. 1936), Marrakech, 1964.
Frank Stella (b. 1936), Marrakech, 1964. Fluorescent alkyd on canvas. 77 × 77 × 2 7/8 in. (195.6 × 195.6 × 7.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Scull, 1971 (1971.5). © 2015 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Frank Stella (b. 1936), Effingham II, 1966
Frank Stella (b. 1936), Effingham II, 1966. Acrylic on canvas. 127 1/2 × 132 × 4 in. (323.9 × 335.3 × 10.2 cm). The Glass House, A Site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation © 2015 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Frank Stella (b.1936), Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III), 1970
Frank Stella (b.1936), Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III), 1970. Alkyd on canvas, 120 × 600 in. (304.8 × 1524 cm). The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; museum purchase funded by Alice Pratt Brown. © 2015 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Frank Stella, Die Fahne hoch!, 1959

Frank Stella, Die Fahne hoch!, 1959. Enamel on canvas, 121 1/2 × 73 in. (308.6 × 185.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Schwartz and purchase with funds from the John I. H. Baur Purchase Fund, the Charles and Anita Blatt Fund, Peter M. Brant, B. H. Friedman, the Gilman Foundation, Inc., Susan Morse Hilles, The Lauder Foundation, Frances and Sydney Lewis, the Albert A. List Fund, Philip Morris Incorporated, Sandra Payson, Mr. and Mrs. Albrecht Saalfield, Mrs. Percy Uris, Warner Communications Inc., and the National Endowment for the Arts
Frank Stella (b. 1936), Harran II, 1967
Frank Stella (b. 1936), Harran II, 1967. Polymer and fluorescent polymer paint on canvas. 120 × 240 in. (304.8 × 609.6 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; gift, Mr. Irving Blum, 1982 © 2015 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Frank Stella (b. 1936), Empress of India, 1965.
Frank Stella (b. 1936), Empress of India, 1965. Metallic powder in polymer emulsion on canvas. 77 × 224 in. (195.6 × 569 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York; gift of S. I. Newhouse, Jr. © 2015 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY

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