Frank Stella Hon RA (1936 - 2024)
Frank Stella Hon RA (1936 - 2024)
Frank Stella was an American painter and printmaker most recognised for his minimalist, abstract works.
Born in Massachusetts in 1936, Stella went on to study history at Princeton University, later moving to New York City and becoming increasingly influenced by the work of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, and later to the flatter surfaces of Barnett Newman. His notorious striped canvases were first explored in the Black Paintings of the late 1950s, which were included in the show 16 Americans at MOMA in 1959.
From there, Stella continued his explorations into geometric abstraction, and began to introduce colour into his work. Stella’s printmaking developed alongside his painting, and often explored similar themes. In the 1980s and 1990s, Stella moved towards increasingly sculptural painting/constructions, and the 1990s saw his involvement in a number of public art and architecture projects.
His work has been exhibited worldwide, and is included in the collections of major art institutions including the Guggenheim Museum and MOMA, New York; the Kunstmuseum Basel; MOCA, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Tate Modern, London.
Profile
Honorary RA
Born: 12 May 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States
Died: 4 May 2024
Nationality: American
Elected Hon RA: 10 December 1993
Gender: Male
Preferred media: Painting
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Gallery
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Frank Stella, Die Marquise von O (panel 5), 1999.
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Frank Stella, Giyan V(e), 2002.
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Frank Stella, Dalma Tepe, 2002.
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Frank Stella, Die Marquise von O (panel 7), 1999.
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Frank Stella, ?Die Marquise von O (panel 3), 1999.
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Selected CV: Frank Stella
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Recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions
2016 (forthcoming) Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs
de Young Museum, San Francisco
Moderm Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw
2015 The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2014 More Gallery, Giswil Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2013 Watterling Gallery, Stockholm -
Recent and forthcoming group exhibitions
2015 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford San Diego
Museum of Art, San Diego Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
2014 Dominique Lévy, New York and London National Academy Museum
New York de Young Museum, San Francisco
2013 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt Bass
Museum of Art, Miami Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Rome Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin -
Selected collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hara Museum, Tokyo
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Los Angeles National Gallery of Art
Tate Modern, London
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