biography
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Stella, Frank (Philip)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1936– )
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Malden, Massachusetts, USA. The nephew of Joseph Stella, he studied art at Princeton (1954–8), settled in New York City (1958), and worked as a house painter. He produced abstract ‘pin-stripe’ works (1959), such as ‘The Marriage of Reason and Squalor’ (1959), painted his ‘black’ series (c.1960), and soon was experimenting with shaped canvases and copper and aluminum paint. In 1964–5 he created his ‘Notched V’ series, and later began his large sculptural wall reliefs, ‘The Indian Bird Series’ (1977–8). His later work was three-dimensional. |
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