Fortín de las Flores (Block-House of Flowers)
1967
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View on museum website →Medium
color screenprint with graphite on English Vellum wove graph paper
Dimensions
image: 23.8 x 47.4 cm (9 3/8 x 18 11/16 in.) sheet: 45.9 x 58.4 cm (18 1/16 x 23 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Accession Number
2006.126.8
About the Artist
Frank Stella
Frank Stella, born on May 12, 1936, in Malden, Massachusetts, to first-generation Italian-American parents, grew up immersed in art from an early age. His father, a gynecologist who painted houses to fund medical school, enlisted young Stella in sanding and scraping tasks as an informal apprenticeship, while his mother, an artist who painted landscapes, further nurtured his creative inclinations. ...