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Pagosa Springs

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Object Details

Artist
Frank Stella, American, b. Malden, Massachusetts, 1936–2024
Provenance
The artist, New York, to 25 October 1966
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, October 1996-1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History
LEO CASTELLI GALLERY, New York. Frank Stella, 28 April-19 May 1962.
THE JEWISH MUSEUM, New York. Toward a New Abstraction, 19 May 1962-15 September 1963, no.44.
XXXII BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE, Venice. United States Pavilion, June-September 1964, no. 83, p.279.
PASADENA ART MUSEUM, Pasadena, CA. Three American Painters, 6 July-3 August 1965.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, pp.751, 759.
INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART, Indianapolis, IN. Power: Its Myths and Mores in American Art 1961-1991, 5 September-3 November 1991, no.18, p.44-5. TOUR: AKRON ART MUSEUM, Akron, OH, 18 January-21 March 1992; VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Richmond, VA, 11 May-12 July 1992.
CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA, Madrid. Frank Stella, September 1995-January 1996, p. 169, 232. TOUR: HAUS DER KUNST, Munich, Germany, 10 February 1996-21 April 1996, p. 169, 231.
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Grand re-opening exhibition, 1 July 2006-4 July 2007.
L&M ARTS, New York. "Frank Stella: Black, Aluminum, Copper Paintings," 12 April-2 June 2012, cat.
Published References
JUDD, DONALD. "New York Reports: In the Galleries," Arts Magazine, 36, September 1962, p.51.
UNSIGNED. "Venice: The Biennale XXXII," Arts Magazine, 38, May-June 1964, p.77.
KOZLOFF, MAX. "The Inert and the Frenetic," Artforum, 4, March 1966, p.44.
COPLANS, JOHN. Serial Imagery (Greenwich: New York Graphics, 1968) p. 105.
LYNES, RUSSELL. "From Century Ago to Just Yesterday at the Hirshhorn," Smithsonian, 5/10, January 1975, p. 46.
SANDLER, IRVING. The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties (New York: Harper & Row, 1978) no.225, p. 309.
BAIGELL, MATTHEW. A Concise History of American Painting and Sculpture (New York: Harper & Row, 1984) p. 377.
RUBIN, LAWRENCE. Frank Stella Paintings 1958 to 1965: A Catalogue Raisonne (New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1986), no. 80, p. 120, 276.
SANDLER, IRVING. American Art of the 1960s (New York: Harper & Row, 1988).
RIFKIN, NED. Robert Moskowitz (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1989), p. 23, fig. 7.
GUBERMAN, SIDNEY. Frank Stella: An Illustrated Biography (New York: Rizzoli, 1995), p. 67.
BJELAJAC, DAVID. American Art: A Cultural History (London: Laurence King, 2000), p. 362.
BAIGELL, MATTHEW. Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century America (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p.159.
SOTHEBY'S AUCTION. Contemporary Art from the Douglas S. Cramer Collection (New York: Sotheby's, 14 November 2001), p. 66.
SMITH, ROBERTA. "Laying the Tracks Others Followed: Frank Stella's Early Work at L&M Arts," New York Times (26 April 2012), online edition.
HANKINS, EVELYN C., ed. Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Munich: DelMonico Books + Prestel, 2016), fig. 7, p. 102.
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
(1960)
Accession Number
72.277
Type
Painting
Medium
Copper paint and pencil on canvas
Dimensions
99 3/8 x 99 1/4 in. (252.3 x 252.1 cm)
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
School
Formalist Abstraction
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Record ID
hmsg_72.277
Metadata Usage (text)
Not determined
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2484bd1bc-0364-4e61-88b2-4e25864fc314

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