Frank Stella 1958
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS (Arthur M. Sackler Museum): February 4 through May 7, 2006
Frank Stella, Untitled, 1958. Acrylic paint on off-white wove paper, 66 x 50.5 cm. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Margaret Fisher Fund, 2004.22. Photo: Katya Kallsen, HUAM. © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
This tightly focused exhibition investigates a single moment in the career of one of the nation's most important postwar artists. Nineteen fifty-eight was Frank Stella's first year of independent work. After graduating from Princeton, he moved to New York City where he shared a studio with the young sculptor Carl Andre and threw himself into a series of monumental abstract canvases. Until now, these 30 works have been either neglected or treated as a prelude to the proto-minimalist black paintings that Stella began at the end of the year. But the works from 1958 stand solidly on their own, as the exhibition demonstrates by bringing most of them together for the first time. ...
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