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Renowned American artist Frank Stella dies aged 87 | |
By Kathleen Magramo and Sara Smart, CNN | |
Updated: | |
11:25 PM EDT, Sat May 4, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
Frank Stella, the American artist renowned for his abstract works, | |
died on Saturday at the age of 87, his longtime representative said in | |
a . | |
Stella died at his home in Manhattan. His wife, Dr. Harriet E. McGurk, | |
said the cause was lymphoma, according to The New York Times. | |
“It has been a great honor to work with Frank for this past | |
decade,” said Marianne Boesky, who has represented Stella since 2014, | |
in a statement. “His is a remarkable legacy, and he will be | |
missed.” | |
Born in 1936, Massachusetts native Stella attended Phillips Academy | |
Andover, where he studied painting under Patrick Morgan. He then | |
studied history and painting at Princeton under and before moving to | |
New York City in the late 1950s. | |
Stella achieved early fame with his monochromatic “Black | |
Paintings,” which were displayed at the Museum of Modern Art when he | |
was just 22, and became his most famous contribution to the postwar | |
abstract movement. Stella used house paint and a wide brush to create | |
black stripes and left evenly spaced thin lines of exposed canvas� | |
between them. | |
He was prolific for six decades, evolving his medium with elements of | |
mixed media and non-conventional geometric canvases to blur the | |
boundary between painting and sculpture. | |
His acclaimed works include the “Protractor Series” of curved lines | |
and bright colors, created in the late 1960s and early 70s, as well as | |
the neon-speckled “Moby Dick”-inspired sculptures from the 80s and | |
90s. | |
Stella continued to create art well into his ninth decade, with his | |
some of his recent sculptures being displayed at the in New York City. | |
One of his final pieces is still on display in Florida at the . | |
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