Bower in Arsacides

Artist Frank Stella American, 1936–2024

Date1993

MediumLithograph, etching, aquatint, relief, collagraph on white TGL handmade paper (40 colors printed in 15 runs)

Dimensions58 1/4 x 49 5/8 in. (148 x 126 cm)
Frame: 65 1/4 x 55 3/4 x 3 1/8 in. (165.7 x 141.6 x 7.9 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton

Object number2014.20.55

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ProvenanceCreated (published) Tyler Graphics, Mt. Kisco, NY, 1993; collection of the artist; [Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York]; private collection; [Knoedler & Co., New York]; Mary and James R. Patton Jr., Great Falls, VA, July 2000; given to NCMA, 2014.

Published ReferencesRobert K. Wallace, Frank Stella’s Moby Dick: Words and Shapes (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000), discussed 41–43, 221–222, 226, illus. (color) 40, plate 16, cat. no. 202, p. 283. Jacquelynn Baas, Frank Stella: Moby Dick Deckle Edges (New York: Tyler Graphics, Ltd., 1993), described 24, illus. (color) 25.

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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