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Frank Stella
[American Minimalist Painter and Sculptor, born in 1936]
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Frank Stella Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Frank Stella available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW! Many works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City 2 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III), 1970
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
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)
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Frank Stella at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. 2 works online
Wetmore Print Collection at Connecticut College Great reproductions of 9 prints
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW! (Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
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
Brighton & Hove Museums, England
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City (Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
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
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 have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
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"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Florida Le Neveu de Rameau, 1974
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
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
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Works from the Gemini G.E.L. prints online catalogue raisonné
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Raqqa II, 1970
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 NEW!
Pomona College Museum of Art, California Click on "View objects by this artist"
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas Double Scramble, 1968
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska Ciezowa II
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.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image) Untitled, 1966
Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands Effingham I, 1967
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut Sinjerli Variation IV
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Ein Schauspiel, 3X
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution) Darabjerd III, 1967
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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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  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
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
The Art Story
The New York Observer "It's Ugly, Drafty, Ghastly: Stella's Work in a Garage", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer "Frank Stella, Rank Amateur, in an Overhyped New Show", article by Hilton Kramer
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
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
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. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
 Working Space
look inside
 Frank Stella's Moby-Dick: Words and Shapes
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