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Die Fahne hoch!

Frank StellaWW-1959-164524

1959·Enamel on canvas·Overall: 121 5/8 × 72 13/16 in. (308.9 × 184.9 cm)

<p>Frank Stella, <em>Die Fahne hoch!</em>, 1959. Enamel on canvas, overall: 121 5/8 × 72 13/16 in. (308.9 × 184.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Schwartz and purchase with funds from the John I. H. Baur Purchase Fund, the Charles and Anita Blatt Fund, Peter M. Brant, B. H. Friedman, the Gilman Foundation, Inc., Susan Morse Hilles, The Lauder Foundation, Frances and Sydney Lewis, the Albert A. List Fund, Philip Morris Incorporated, Sandra Payson, Mr. and Mrs. Albrecht Saalfield, Mrs. Percy Uris, Warner Communications Inc., and the National Endowment for the Arts 75.22. © Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1959
Medium: Enamel on canvas
Dimensions: Overall: 121 5/8 × 72 13/16 in. (308.9 × 184.9 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art
Artist: Frank Stella

Artist

Frank Stella

Painting

One of the most well-regarded postwar American artists still working today, Frank Stella (b. 1936) moved to New York in 1958 after graduating from Princeton, where he majored in history and studied painting. With his first series, “Black Paintings” (1958–60) – in which parallel patterns in black house paint were separated by pinstripes of unpainted canvas – the artist radically departed from his Abstract Expressionist forebears, declared himself a practitioner of nonrepresentational painting (work that is detached from any emotional, intellectual or physical reality) and helped launch Minimalism.

Malden, MA, USA

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