Flin Flon IV

1969

Frank Stella

Associated Names
Frank Stella

Artist, American, 1936 - 2024

This painting contains four large petal-like shapes stretching towards the upper and lower corners, intersecting at the center of the square canvas. The shapes and the space around them are filled with a range of bright colors including orange, blue, brown, cream, pink, and green. The petals are divided into smaller shapes that all contain different colors. The petals themselves are symmetrical, but the shapes within them are not. Between each of the shapes are thin, off-white lines separating the different colors
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On View

East Building Upper Level, West Terrace

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    polymer and fluorescent polymer paint on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 245.1 x 245.1 cm (96 1/2 x 96 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1994.82.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York); Gary Familian, Texas; consigned to Shaindy Fenton; (Solomon and Co., Inc., New York); Dr. and Mrs. D. Cole; (Solomon and Co., Inc., New York); sold 1983 to Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, Phoenix, Maryland;[1] gift 1994 to NGA.
[1] Provenance from The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996: 258.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1970

  • American Artists of the Nineteen Sixties, Boston University School of Fine & Applied Arts Gallery, 1970, repro. 55.

1983

  • Resource/Response/Reservoir Stella Survey: 1959-1982, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1983, pl. 3.

1996

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 164, color repro.

2007

  • Color as Field: American Painting 1950-1975, Denver Art Museum, Denver; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 2007-2008, pl. 28.

2009

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2009-2010, pl. 34.

2014

  • Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, 2014, pl. 41.

Bibliography

1996

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996: no. 164.

Inscriptions

right center reverse in black pen: F. Stella '69

Wikidata ID

Q20196993

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