Wolfeboro (work print #3), from the Eccentric Polygons Series

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Wolfeboro (work print #3), from the Eccentric Polygons Series

Artist Frank Stella (American, 1936 - 2024)

Date1974

DimensionsH: 17 1/4 in. (438 mm); W: 22 1/4 in. (565 mm).

MediumLithograph and screenprints in colors.

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Frank Stella in honor of Brian P. Kennedy

Object number

2013.14

Not on View

DescriptionThis is a set of 11 lithograph and screenprints of identical size, each one portraying a different “Eccentric Polygon” borrowed from Stella’s earlier “Irregular Polygon” painting series. The polygons generally fill each sheet of paper from top to bottom edge, but they also appear to float against the white fields. Unlike the smooth, brushless surfaces of Stella’s paintings, the color that fills in these shapes is visibly scribbled and striated—in this way making visible the drawing texture typical to the lithography process.

Published ReferencesKennedy, Brian, Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons, Lebanon and Hanover, NH, University Press of New England and Hood Museum of Art, 2011.Exhibition HistoryHanover, NH, Hood Museum of Art; Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons, 2011.