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.
Notable works in the exhibition include:
Cricket/Kit Construction, an early sculptural assemblage that has never before been seen publicly.
Morro Castle, one of the first Black paintings.
Them Apples, a painted construction of cardboard and wood that highlights the influence of Jasper Johns on Stella's practice.
Astoria, a yellow monochrome from the Museum of Modern Art
Blue Horizon, a blue monochrome from Brown University.
After its premiere at the Harvard University Art Museums the exhibition will travel to The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas (May 25-August 20, 2006) and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio (September 9-December 31, 2006). A symposium on the artist will be presented at Harvard on April 8, 2006.
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