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Original works by Frank Stella available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1870-1970, 1970
Untitled, 1964
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
3 works by Frank Stella online
Frank Stella at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Jarama II, 1982
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Swan Engraving Blue, 1983 (Zoom)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Raqqa II, 1970
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
2 works online
Wetmore Print Collection at Connecticut College
Great reproductions of 9 prints
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
Diepholz, 1981
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Agbatana III
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Die Fahne Hoch, 1967
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
7 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Botafogo II
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Yellow Journal, State I, 1982
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
3 works online
David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Wolfeboro II, 1966
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German) 
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Basra Gate II (Protractor Series)
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Information about the 2006 exhibition, "Frank Stella 1958"
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan (in Japanese)
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
etology (C29, 1X), 1990
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
The Prophet (D16, 2X), 1990
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "S"
Frank Stella in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Florida
Le Neveu de Rameau, 1974
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
5 works online
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
Frank Stella at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Yazd II (Khurasan Gate Stretch Variation), 1968
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
The Spirit - Spout, 1988
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Frank Stella online
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas
Double Scramble, 1968
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Ciezowa II
Frank Stella at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Frank Stella at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Page from Stella's sketchbook, 1966-67
Frank Stella at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Untitled, 1966
Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Effingham I, 1967
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Sinjerli Variation IV
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Die Fahne Hoch, 1959
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Ein Schauspiel, 3X
PBase Photo Sharing
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Darabjerd III, 1967
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
Howard Tullman's Art Collection
Grid
PBS
Profile of the artist, specifically in reference to the influence of Hans Hofmann
Repository of Abstract Art
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Untitled
The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
The Polish Village Series
The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
Exhibit of The Polish Village Series
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Frank Stella 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Art & Antiques Magazine
"Stella's Places"
ARTnews
Named as one of "The 10 Most Expensive Living Artists"
Cigar Aficionado
Rings of Art
Frank Stella, one of the most renowned artists of the late twentieth century, has been using cigar smoke as an inspiration
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: It's Ugly, Drafty, Ghastly: Stella's Work in a Garage
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Frank Stella, Rank Amateur, in an Overhyped New Show
Time Magazine
"Stella and the Painted Bird", 1978 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Expanding What Prints Can Do", 1983 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"The Grand Maximalist", 1987 article by Robert Hughes
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Flash presentation of 15 works, including Stella's Zeltweg, 1981
(click "explore 15 works" when you get past the intro)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature: Frank Stella and the Anderson Collection
The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS)
Stella participates in a 1996 discussion about Abstraction
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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search inside
Working Space
look inside
Frank Stella's Moby-Dick: Words and Shapes
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