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Frank Philip Stella (May 12, 1936 – May 4, 2024) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He lived and worked in New York City for much of his career before moving his studio to Rock Tavern, New York.
In 1964, Stella famously declared of his paintings: “What you see is what you see.” By championing purely formal concerns, he was ostensibly reacting against the rhetoric of subjectivity and romanticism surrounding abstract expressionism.
May 5, 2024 · The artist, who died Saturday, was hailed in his 20s by an establishment fixated on abstraction and purity. He spent the rest of his career producing work that repudiated those limits. Frank ...
May 4, 2024 · In 1959, Frank Stella gained early, immediate recognition with his series of coolly impersonal black striped paintings that turned the gestural brushwork and existential angst of Abstract Expressionism on its head.
May 5, 2024 · Frank Stella, a towering figure in the field of abstract art for the past 65 years, has died, aged 87. His death on 4 May, at home in New York City, was announced by Marianne Boesky Gallery,...
May 6, 2024 · The artist Frank Stella died at his home in Manhattan this weekend on May 4 at age 87. News of his passing was confirmed by his wife, Dr. Harriet E. McGurk, who said the cause was lymphoma.
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May 5, 2024 · Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday, May 4, 2024, at...
