Sacramento Mall Proposal #4
Frank Stella
1978
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View on museum website →Medium
acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 262.89 × 263.21 × 7.62 cm (103 1/2 × 103 5/8 × 3 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Collectors Committee
Accession Number
1982.53.1
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. ...