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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1981.83
People
Frank Stella, American (Malden, MA 1936 - 2024 New York, New York)
Title
Hiraqla II
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1967
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227919

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Acrylic paint on canvas
Dimensions
304.8 x 609.6 cm (120 x 240 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Michael Ghent, Los Angeles, California. [Helman Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri], sold; to Joseph Pulitzer Jr., St. Louis, Missouri, 1970, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1981.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Copyright
© Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1981
Object Number
1981.83
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John Coplans, Serial Imagery, exh. cat., Pasadena Art Museum (Pasadena, CA, 1968), no. 156-166; reproduced in color p. 125
  • George McCue, Review of American Art in St. Louis Exhibition at City Art Museum, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (October 26, 1969), reproduced p. 5B
  • City Art Museum of St. Louis, [Unidentified article], Calendar of the City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis MO, March 1970 - August 1970), repr. on cover
  • William S. Rubin, Frank Stella, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1970), pp. 136-137
  • Hilton Kramer, "Few Surprises in Pulitzer Collection", The New York Times (November 18, 1971), p. 60
  • Susan Drysdale, "Pulitzer Art at Fogg and Wadsworth Athenaeum", The Christian Science Monitor (December 3, 1971), p. 30
  • William Germain Dooley, "Pulitzer Collection at Fogg", Cambridge Chronicle (Cambridge, MA, November 18, 1971)
  • Judith Parker, "Pulitzer's Prizes", Harvard Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, December 13, 1971), p. 27
  • [Unidentified article], Fogg Art Museum Newsletter, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1971), vol. IX, no. 1, reproduced
  • Charles Scott Chetham, Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), pp. 543-546, fig. 233, ill. (b/w)
  • Florence Berkman, "A Wide Range of Art in Pulitzer Exhibition", The Hartford Times (February 6, 1972)
  • Jolene Goldenthal, "Pulitzer Collection, Part III", The Hartford Courant (February 6, 1972)
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, reproduced in color fig. 73, p. 80, and back cover
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Classic Modern: the Art Worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2012), p. 336, fig. 16.1

Exhibition History

  • Frank Stella Paintings, Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, 01/01/1968 - 12/31/1968
  • Serial Imagery, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 09/17/1968 - 10/27/1968; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 11/17/1968 - 12/22/1968; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 01/25/1969 - 02/23/1969
  • Unidentified Exhibition, City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1969, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 01/01/1969 - 12/31/1969
  • Modern Painting Drawing and Sculpture Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1971 - 01/03/1972; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 02/02/1972 - 03/19/1972
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986
  • Homage to Frank Stella, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, New York, 09/17/2024 - 12/14/2024

Verification Level

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