Frank Stella
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”

“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”

© Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
ArtistAmerican, 1936–2024
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • “Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
  • Untitled
  • from the series Stella by Starlight
Date1982, reworked 1983
PlaceUnited States
MediumCollage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board
DimensionsFrame (outer): 36 7/8 × 63 3/8 in. (93.7 × 161 cm)
 Sheet: 36 × 62 1/2 in. (91.4 × 158.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. S. M. McAshan, Jr.
Object number82.474.14
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited: at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (in North Foyer) during the 1982 ball, "Stella by Starlight," for which the collages served as models for the larger wall decorations in Cullinan Hall and Upper Brown.

Loan: Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Law from May 18 to Sep. 9, 1988, in exchange for the MFA borrowing the Picasso, ACC:64.17 (LN:88.25).

"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: "#9"

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“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
Frank Stella
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
1982, reworked 1983
Collage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board
82.474.3
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
Frank Stella
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
1982, reworked 1983
Collage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board
82.474.5
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
Frank Stella
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
1982, reworked 1983
Collage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board
82.474.4
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
Frank Stella
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
1982, reworked 1983
Collage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board
82.474.1
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
Frank Stella
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
1982, reworked 1983
Collage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board
82.474.2
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
Frank Stella
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
1982, reworked 1983
Collage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board
82.474.13
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
Frank Stella
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
1982, reworked 1983
Collage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board
82.474.12
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
Frank Stella
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
1982, reworked 1983
Collage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board
82.474.15
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
Frank Stella
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
1982, reworked 1983
Collage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board
82.474.7
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
Frank Stella
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
1982, reworked 1983
Collage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board
82.474.6
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
Frank Stella
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
1982, reworked 1983
Collage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board
82.474.10
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
Frank Stella
“Houston Ball Drawing” from the series “Stella by Starlight”
1982, reworked 1983
Collage, printed paper, watercolor, and graphite on board
82.474.8