February 4 through May 7, 2006
Arthur M. Sackler Museum (more about the Sackler)

Frank Stella, Untitled, 1958. Acrylic paint on off-white wove paper, 66 x 50.5 cm. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Margaret Fisher Fund, 2004.22. Photo: Katya Kallsen, HUAM. © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

The year 1958 was Stella's first year of independent work. After graduating from Princeton, he moved to New York and threw himself into creating a series of monumental abstract canvases. Until now, these 30 works have been neglected or treated as a prelude to his proto-minimalist black paintings that soon followed. But the works from 1958 stand solidly on their own, as the exhibition demonstrates by bringing most of them together for the first time.

Frank Stella 1958 has been funded in part through the generosity of John and Frances Bowes, Lief D. Rosenblatt, the NBT Charitable Trust, Manson Benedict, the National Endowment for the Arts, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, The Broad Art Foundation, Jessie Lie Farber, David Mirvish, and A. Bernard Ackerman.

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