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Episode 3 - A Surface with Paint on It

Frank Stella, Gran Cairo, 1962, alkyd on canvas, 85 9/16 × 85 9/16 inches. (217.3 × 217.3 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Hilma af Klint, works from The Parsifal Series, 1916

Watercolor and graphite on paper

Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
October 12, 2018 - April 23, 2019

Frank Stella, Pagosa Springs, 1960, copper paint and pencil on canvas, 99 3/8 x 99 1/4 in (252.3 x 252.1 cm)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern
Brooklyn Museum, New York
March 3 - July 23, 2017
Georgia O'Keeffe, Evening Star No III, 1917, watercolor on paper mounted on board, 8 7/8 x 11 7/8  in (22.7 x 30.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Frank Stella, Haines City, 1963, alkyd on canvas, 99 × 99 inches (251.5 × 251.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Frank Stella, Empress of India, 1965, metallic powder in polymer emulsion paint on canvas, 77 x 224 inches (195.6 x 548.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Frank Stella, Wolfeboro III, 1966fluorescent alkyd paint on canvas, 160 3/4 X 99 3/4 in (408.3 X 253.3 cm)
Seattle Art Museum
Frank Stella, Deauville, 1970, acrylic on canvas, 10 x 45 feet

The New School, New York

Frank Stella, Madinat as-Salam III, 1971, acrylic on canvas, 120 in. x 25 feet (304.8 x 762 cm)

Saint Louis Art Museum

Bartolomeo della Gatta, Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1473, oil on canvas, 125 x 87 1/2 inches (317 x 222 cm)

Diocese Museum, Cortona

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, ca. 1750, oil on canvas, 96 x 183 3/4 in (243.8 x 466.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Recommended Reading
Thomas Learner, et al eds, Modern Paints Uncovered, The Getty Conservation Institute, 2006
 
William S. Rubin, Frank Stella, Museum of Modern Art, 1970
 

Frank Stella, Working Space, Harvard University Press, 1986

 

Modern Art: Who Cares? International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art, 1997

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