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Cheops Sun-Box Number 2
1969 · Oil and acrylic on canvas
72 × 84 in. (182.9 × 213.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Theodoros Stamos
?–1997
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The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800�1950
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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The New American Painting as Shown in Eight European Countries 1958�1959
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Theodoros Stamos was a Greek-American abstract painter whose work emerged from the postwar New York School. Working primarily in oil on canvas, he developed a lyrical abstraction rooted in nature, particularly the forms and light conditions of Greek islands and the American landscape. His paintings combine gestural mark-making with a meditative treatment of color and atmospheric space, creating compositions that suggest geological or cosmic phenomena without direct representation.
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