Frank Stella

Frank Philip Stella is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella lives and works in New York City.

Frank Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts to first-generation Italian-American parents. His father was a gynecologist, and his mother was a housewife and artist who attended fashion school and later took up landscape painting.

After attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he attended Princeton University. His work was influenced by abstract expressionism. He is heralded for creating abstract paintings that bear no pictorial illusions or psychological or metaphysical references in twentieth-century painting.

In the 1970s he moved into NoHo in Manhattan in New York City. As of 2015, Stella lived in Greenwich Village and kept an office there but commuted on weekdays to his studio in Rock Tavern, New York.

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