id: 161789 accession number: 2001.126 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.126 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:44.116000 Çatal Hüyük (level VI B) Shrine VI B.1, 2001. Frank Stella (American, b. 1936). Aluminum pipe and cast aluminum; overall: 246.3 x 322.4 x 231 cm (96 15/16 x 126 15/16 x 90 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro and John L. Severance Fund 2001.126 © Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Çatal Hüyük (level VI B) Shrine VI B.1 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2001 creation date earliest: 2001 creation date latest: 2001 current location: 001B ArtLens Exhibition creditline: Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro and John L. Severance Fund copyright: © Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America, 21st century technique: aluminum pipe and cast aluminum department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Frank Stella (American, b. 1936) - artist Frank Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts in 1936 and studied at Princeton University. Stella's auspicious start in New York, only a year after his graduation from Princeton, was an exhibit of the Black Paintings of 1959-60. Viewed as a precursor to Minimalism, these pivotal works led to his inclusion in Sixteen Americans at the Museum of Modern Art and the notice of its director, Alfred Barr, who purchased a painting, The Marriage of Squalor and Reason. With their emphasis on control and rationalism, the Black Paintings opened genuinely new paths for abstraction and exerted a profound influence on the art of the 1960s. A major shift from this work began to develop in 1966 with his Irregular Polygons, canvases in the shapes of irregular geometric forms and characterized by large unbroken areas of color. As this new vocabulary developed into a more open and color-oriented pictorial language, the works underwent a metamorphosis in size, expressing an affinity with architecture in their monumentality. Stella also introduced curves into his works, marking the beginning of the Protractor series. Harran II evinces the great vaulting compositions and lyrically decorative patterns that are the leitmotif of the series, which is based on the semicircular drafting instrument used for measuring and constructing angles. In the 1970s, Stella's work moved toward three-dimensional paintings on shaped canvases and later toward wall constructions with multiple components, ever projecting further from their supports. Stella's second retrospective at MOMA in 1987 concluded with a series of daring reliefs based on Melville's Moby Dick. These works further blurred any boundary between paintings and sculpture. In 1983-84 Stella gave the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University. These lectures, later published under the title Working Space, marked a critical juncture for the artist. A spirited defense of abstraction, they could well sum up Stella's approach to painting and have acted as a manifesto for his work since. Since the 1980s, the artist has completed a number of large-scale works for public spaces, confirming Stella's abiding interest in architecture. A vast commission during the early 90s, involving the Princess of Wales Theater in Toronto, has led to a series of architectural proposals and commissions over the past eight years, including his Bandshell for the City of Miami. --- measurements: Overall: 246.3 x 322.4 x 231 cm (96 15/16 x 126 15/16 x 90 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Artlens Exhibition 2017 opening date: 2017-06-24T04:00:00 Artlens Exhibition 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24, 2017-May 29, 2019). title: Artlens Exhibition 2019 opening date: 2019-06-11T04:00:00 Artlens Exhibition 2019. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery: Frank Stella, Recent Work (November 17-December 22, 2001), no catalogue (this sculpture removed from exhibiiton on December 3rd).', 'opening_date': '2001-11-17T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE the artist date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Gift of Major New Stella Sculpture, Purchases of 6th-Century Jeweled Buckle, Ancient Indian Bronze Ancient Mexican Stone Head Among CMA’s Autumn Acquisitions,” December 26, 2001, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4424 Donley, Gregory M., "Mapping New Train ", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 42 no. 03, March 2002 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2002-03/page/n3 --- IMAGES