Frank Stella
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Artist Frank Stella American, born 1936

CultureAmerican

Titles

Untitled
from the series Stella by Starlight

Date1982, reworked 1983

PlaceUnited States

MediumCollage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board

DimensionsFrame (outer): 28 7/8 × 22 3/4 in. (73.3 × 57.8 cm)
Sheet: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. John C. Fitch

Object number82.474.3

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited at the MFAH (in Brown Foyer) during the 1982 ball, "Stella by Starlight," for which the collages served as models for the larger wall decorations in Cullinan and Upper Brown.

"Stella in Studio," The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, The University of Houston, January 17-March 23, 1997.

"Stella by Starlight," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 13—May 22, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed and dated in pencil at bottom edge recto, left: "Houston Ball drwg's. F.S. '82" Stella's code # at lower right: "2F"

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