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Darabjerd III

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Object Details

Artist
Frank Stella, American, b. Malden, Massachusetts, 1936–2024
Provenance
Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, to 10 November 1967
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 10 November 1967-1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, 13 December 1967-4 February 1968, no.135.
ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS, Corpus Christi, TX. Johns, Stella, Warhol: Works in Series, 4 October-26 November 1972, p.18, 25.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, p. 751, 1010.
Published References
CONE, JANE HARRISON. "Frank Stella's New York Paintings," Artforum 7, December 1967, p.37.
KRAUSS, ROSALIND E. "On Frontality," Artforum 6, no.9, May 1968, p.45.
RUBIN, WILLIAM.S. Frank Stella (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970) p.133.
KRAMER,HILTON. "Frank Stella's Brash and Lyric Flight," Portfolio, April/May 1971, p.51.
ASHTON, DORE. "Retrospective/Perspective 1961-1974," Arts Magazine, 49/1, September 1974, p.37.
LERNER, ABRAM et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974) p.751, pl.1010.
LYNES, RUSSELL. "From Century Ago to Just Yesterday at the Hirshhorn," Smithsonian, 5/10, January 1975, pl. 46.
Encyclopedia Americana (New York: Grolier Inc., 1975).
CHAET, BERNARD. An Artist's Notebook: Techniques and Materials (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979) fig. 102, p.108.
LEVY, VIRGINIA. Let's Go to the Art Museum (Pompano Beach, FL: Veejay Publications, 1983) p.9.
CARPENTER, JAMES M. Visual Art: A Critical Introduction (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984) pl.3.
BRITSCH, RALPH A. and TODD A. BRITSCH. The Arts in Western Culture (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1985) pl. 16.
PETERSON, GARY L. College Algebra (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1985) cover.
BLOCK, JACQUELINE and BENJAMIN MARTINEZ. Visual Forces: An Introduction to Design (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988/89) p.222.
ATKINS, ROBERT. Art Speak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords (New York: Abbeville Press, 1990) p.144.
JOACHIMIDES, CHRISTOS M. and NORMAN ROSENTHAL ed. American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993 (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1993) p.112.
DAY, MICHAEL and AL HURWITZ. Children and Their Art: Methods for the Elementary School (Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1995).
ZILCZER, JUDITH. Richard Lindner: Paintings and Watercolors 1948-1977 (Washington D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 1996) p.89.
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
(1967)
Accession Number
72.278
Type
Painting
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
120 1/8 X 180 1/4 IN. (305.1 X 457.8 CM.)
See more items in
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
School
Formalist Abstraction
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Record ID
hmsg_72.278
Metadata Usage (text)
Not determined
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py26ffbb7cc-5ad5-464b-8fa6-6d94942f6f32

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