Star of Persia I
Frank Stella
1967
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View on museum website →Medium
color lithograph on English Vellum graph paper
Dimensions
sheet: 65.72 × 78.58 cm (25 7/8 × 30 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Maclyn E. Wade
Accession Number
1979.75.2
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. ...