"FRANK STELLA: THE BLACK PAINTINGS" par Brenda RICHARDSON. Editions The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1976. Edition originale. Grand in-8, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée photo. 90 pages. Texte en anglais, avant-propos de Tom L. Freudenheim, illustré de nombreuses reproductions photographiques noir & blanc, in-texte et hors texte, dont 23 œuvres de Frank Stella. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme au Baltimore Museum of Art, du 23 Novembre 1976 au 23 Janvier 1977.

 

"It was in the winter of 1958 that Frank Stella began the work which has come to be known generically as The Black Paintings. By about February of 1960 - in approximately sixteen months - he had completed twenty-three paintings. This work proved to be a cornerstone of advanced abstract painting of the sixties. Stella had not yet reached his twenty-fourth birthday when he completed the last of the Black paintings. Stella's work gained several enthusiastic and influential advocates at an early date. Prominent among them were William Seitz, who taught at Princeton where Stella was a student; art historians Jerome Rothlein and Robert Rosenblum; John Myers of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery (where Stella exhibited professionally for the first time, in April of 1959); Dorothy Miller and Alfred Barr of The Museum of Modern Art; and Leo Castelli, whose gallery Stella joined in August of 1959. By the end of December 1959 four of the Black paintings had been included in the prestigious Sixteen Americans exhibition organized by Dorothy Miller for The Museum of Modern Art, and one of those paintings, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, had been acquired for The Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection…"

 

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