Frank Philip Stella was born on May 12,1936 and is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.
15 Facts About Frank Stella
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Frank Stella's father was a gynecologist, and his mother was a housewife and artist who attended fashion school and later took up landscape painting.
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Frank Stella is heralded for creating abstract paintings that bear no pictorial illusions or psychological or metaphysical references in twentieth-century painting.
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Frank Stella married Barbara Rose, later a well-known art critic, in 1961.
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In 1967, Frank Stella designed the set and costumes for Scramble, a dance piece by Merce Cunningham.
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In 1976, Frank Stella was commissioned by BMW to paint a BMW 3.0 CSL for the second installment in the BMW Art Car Project.
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In 1969, Frank Stella was commissioned to create a logo for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial.
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From 1978 to 2005, Frank Stella owned the Van Tassell and Kearney Horse Auction Mart building in Manhattan's East Village and used it as his studio which resulted in the facade being restored.
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On June 6,2008, Frank Stella published an Op-Ed for The Art Newspaper decrying a proposed US Orphan Works law which "remove[s] the penalty for copyright infringement if the creator of a work, after a diligent search, cannot be located".
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In 2012, a retrospective of Frank Stella's career was shown at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.
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In 2014, Frank Stella gave his sculpture Adjoeman as a long-term loan to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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Frank Stella gave the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in 1984, calling for a rejuvenation of abstraction by achieving the depth of baroque painting.
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In 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.
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Since 2014, Frank Stella has been represented worldwide in an exclusive arrangement shared by Dominique Levy and Marianne Boesky.
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In late 2022, Frank Stella launched an NFT that includes the right to the CAD files to 3D print the art works in the NFTs.