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The Whale-Watch
The Whale-Watch

The Whale-Watch

Artist Frank Stella American, 1936–2024
Date1993
MediumLithograph, etching, aquatint, relief on handmade paper
Dimensions72 1/2 x 73 in. (184.2 x 185.4 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton
Object number2013.10
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated (published) Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Mt. Kisco, NY; collection of the artist; [M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1993]; sold to Mary and Jim Patton, 1993; given to NCMA, 2013.

Published ReferencesJacquelyn Baas, Frank Stella: Moby Dick Deckle Edges (Mount Kisco, NY: Tyler Graphics, Ltd., 1993), 4–6, 12, illus. (color) 13 (another print), detail (color) cover; also illus. in background (color) 11, and in process 31.

Siri Engberg, Frank Stella at Tyler Graphics (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1997), listed 53; series of prints discussed 12–15, 47.

Robert K. Wallace, Frank Stella’s Moby-Dick: Words and Shapes (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000), 223, 226, 229, 287 (ft. 228), illus. (color) 224.

“The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 2015 Calendar), illus. (color), unpaginated.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina,” March 28–August 23, 2015.
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