La penna di hu (black and white)
1988
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph, etching, aquatint, and relief in black on TGL handmade paper
Dimensions
sheet: 196.9 x 149.2 cm (77 1/2 x 58 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Collectors Committee and The Circle of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1993.52.1
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. ...