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ID: 500020533

Record Type: Person

Stella, Frank (American painter, printmaker, and mixed-media artist, born 1936)

Note: Frank Stella earned his degree in history from Princeton University. He moved to New York in 1958, where he developed his artistic talents. He painted with intent to flatten surfaces and often chose square canvases. In the 1970s, Stella created "maximalist" paintings, which were paintings that involved relief and sculptural elements in stark contrast to the "minimalist" paintings of his early career. American painter.

Names:
	Stella, Frank (preferred,V,index,LC)
	Frank Stella (V,display)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	printmaker
	mixed-media artist
	sculptor
	graphic artist(s)

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Malden (Middlesex county, Massachusetts, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

teacher of ....	Egner, John
..................	(American sculptor and painter, born 1940) [500016320]

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Persons, Artists

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Stella, Frank (I)

Biographies:

(American painter, printmaker, and mixed-media artist, born 1936) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(American painter, born 1936) ..... [AVERY]
(American artist, born 1936) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(American painter) ..... [Grove Art]
(American sculptor, born 1936) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(American artist, b.1936) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, 1936-) ..... [WCP]
(American painter, b.1936) ..... [GRLPSC]
(American painter, b.1936) ..... [BHA]
(American painter) ..... [AVERY]

Sources and Contributors:

Frank Stella ........	[GRISC, GRL, VP]
..........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Stella, Frank ........	[AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPSC Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, VP, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
............................	Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (2009-) accessed 13 November 2012
............................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
............................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2009M5
............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 50020749
............................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 50020749; accessed 13 November 2012
............................	RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
............................	Witt Library, Authority files


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, CL-Courtauld, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Bruce and Wells, Art and Context, the '50s and '60s (2006) 52
	..........	Who's who in American art, 16 ed.; date from Domus, 1992 July-Aug., n.740 IV

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