Jonah Historically Regarded
1991
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View on museum website →Medium
color etching, aquatint, relief, screenprint, drypoint, carborundum, and engraving on TGL handmade paper
Dimensions
sheet: 186.69 × 139.07 cm (73 1/2 × 54 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Tyler Graphics Ltd.
Accession Number
1994.67.13
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. ...