Born on this day, May 12, 1936, in Malden, Massachusetts, Frank Stella entered the New York art world while still in his early twenties and almost immediately challenged assumptions about what a painting should be. His early canvases contained no recognizable figures, dramatic brushwork, landscapes, or visible emotional confessions. Instead, wide black stripes repeated across enormous surfaces according to systems established by the shape of the canvas itself.
The paintings looked startlingly direct. Black enamel alternated with narrow lines of bare canvas, creating geometric structures that refused the swirling gestures associated with Abstract Expressionism. Stella wanted viewers to confront the painting as a physical object rather than imagine they were looking through it into another world.
That severe beginning makes the rest of his career particularly surprising. Within a decade, black gave way to dazzling fluorescent color and shaped canvases. During the 1970s, paintings began projecting from the wall as elaborate reliefs. Curves replaced rigid stripes, aluminum replaced conventional canvas, and surfaces became increasingly layered, painted, cut, twisted, and assembled. By the 1980s and 1990s, some works seemed to explode into the room, blurring distinctions among painting, sculpture, printmaking, and architecture.
Stella spent more than six decades asking how far painting could expand without completely ceasing to be painting. Few major artists changed their visual language so dramatically while remaining so consistently committed to that question.
ποΈ Growing Up Near Boston
Frank Philip Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. His father was a physician, while his mother had studied art and maintained an interest in painting and culture.
As a teenager, Stella attended Phillips Academy in Andover, where he encountered serious modern painting through teachers including Patrick and Maud Morgan. Exposure to artists such as Arthur Dove and Hans Hofmann provided an early introduction to abstraction at a time when the New York art world was being transformed by Abstract Expressionism.
Stella was not yet committed to becoming a professional artist. His interests included history and the humanities as well as painting, and when he entered Princeton University in 1954, he studied history rather than enrolling in a conventional professional art program.
The absence of a formal art-school path would become characteristic of his independence. Stella learned largely through looking, painting, discussing art with friends, and repeatedly traveling from Princeton into New York to see exhibitions.
π Princeton and New York
At Princeton University, Stella studied history while continuing to paint. He also met people who would become important within his intellectual and artistic world, including critic Michael Fried and artist Carl Andre.
Trips into Manhattan exposed him directly to the painters dominating American art during the 1950s. Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and other Abstract Expressionists had established a model in which painting could become an arena for physical gesture and individual expression.
Stella admired aspects of their work, particularly its scale and directness, but he became increasingly uncomfortable with the expectation that the viewer should read a painting as the visible record of an artist’s emotional state.
Another artist offered him a different possibility.
π― The Influence of Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns had begun exhibiting paintings of flags, targets, numbers, and other familiar signs in a manner very different from Abstract Expressionism.
Johns’s paintings were recognizable yet oddly impersonal. The image was already known before the artist painted it, reducing the need to invent expressive subject matter. Their surfaces remained highly worked, but the compositions possessed an almost predetermined quality.
Stella responded strongly to that sense of structure.
Instead of beginning with a blank canvas and deciding intuitively where every mark should go, he began exploring systems in which the painting’s organization could be established in advance.
That idea would become fundamental to the work that made him famous.
π½ Moving to New York
After graduating from Princeton in 1958, Stella moved to New York City.
He supported himself for a time through house painting, an occupation that provided an unexpectedly appropriate material for his developing art. Rather than using expensive traditional artists’ pigments, he worked with commercially available enamel paint and broad housepainters’ brushes.
New York was then dominated by artists who had transformed American painting into an international force. For a 22-year-old arriving in the city, the achievements of Abstract Expressionism could seem both inspiring and overwhelming.
Stella’s solution was not to paint more dramatically than his predecessors.
He eliminated drama almost entirely.
β¬ The Black Paintings
Between 1958 and 1960, Stella produced the group now known as the Black Paintings.
The works consist of black enamel stripes separated by narrow lines of unpainted canvas. The arrangements vary from one painting to another, but each follows an internally consistent geometric system.
There is no obvious foreground and background.
No expressive brushwork dominates.
No central image floats within surrounding space.
The composition extends across the entire canvas and responds to its physical dimensions.
The effect was radical because Stella seemed to remove almost everything conventionally associated with artistic personality while making the material presence of the painting impossible to ignore.
ποΈ The Housepainter’s Brush
Stella’s use of a housepainter’s brush became part of the meaning of the Black Paintings.
The width of the brush helped determine the width of the stripes, replacing the idea of spontaneous expressive decision-making with a practical physical unit.
The work was not mechanically perfect. Slight variations reveal that a human hand still made it.
Yet Stella did not dramatize those irregularities.
The brush existed to accomplish the structure.
This approach offered a sharp contrast with Abstract Expressionist paintings in which the movement of the artist’s hand could become the subject itself.
Stella wanted attention redirected toward the picture as a constructed object.
β« The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II
One of the best-known Black Paintings is The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II from 1959.
The enormous canvas contains two symmetrical arrangements of black stripes forming inverted U-shaped patterns. Narrow vertical and horizontal lines of bare canvas separate the bands.
The painting does not depict anything in the conventional sense.
Its structure is its subject.
Stella created the work specifically for the Museum of Modern Art’s important 1959 exhibition Sixteen Americans, where four of his Black Paintings appeared.
MoMA purchased The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II at the time.
Stella was only 23.
ποΈ Sixteen Americans
The inclusion of Stella in Sixteen Americans placed him before a major museum audience extraordinarily early in his career.
The exhibition also included artists who would become central figures in postwar American art, including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson, and Ellsworth Kelly.
Stella’s Black Paintings attracted immediate attention because they seemed to announce a decisive break with the preceding generation.
Some viewers found them cold.
Others saw liberation.
Painting no longer needed to represent the visible world, but Stella suggested it also did not need to represent the artist’s inner emotional life.
It could simply establish a structure and exist physically before the viewer.
π βWhat You See Is What You Seeβ
A phrase Stella later used became almost inseparable from his early reputation: βWhat you see is what you see.β
The statement has sometimes been interpreted as if Stella believed art should contain no meaning at all. His actual work is more complicated than that, especially because many titles carry historical, literary, architectural, or geographical references.
What the phrase captures more accurately is his resistance to pretending that a painting is something other than an object made from physical materials.
A canvas has dimensions.
Paint covers its surface.
A stretcher gives it depth.
Those facts did not need to be disguised.
Stella wanted painting to acknowledge them.
π³οΈ Die Fahne hoch!
Another famous Black Painting, Die Fahne hoch! from 1959, demonstrates why Stella’s supposedly impersonal abstraction could still contain disturbing associations.
The German title comes from a line associated with the Nazi Party anthem, while the painting’s dark symmetrical structure carries a severity that makes the historical reference difficult to ignore.
Stella was not illustrating that subject literally.
Instead, the title creates tension with the otherwise nonrepresentational image.
This relationship between abstract form and unexpected titles would continue throughout his career. Places, historical references, birds, literature, architecture, racing circuits, and other subjects would repeatedly enter works that did not depict them directly.
π©Ά Aluminum and Copper
Stella did not remain with black for long.
In 1960, he began an Aluminum series, followed by a Copper series in 1960β1961.
Metallic paint changed the visual experience of the stripes. Aluminum and copper reflect light differently from matte black, making the physical surface increasingly prominent.
More importantly, these series helped push Stella toward another major innovation.
The rectangular canvas began to feel unnecessary.
If the painted stripes created a particular internal structure, why should the outside edge remain a conventional rectangle?
Stella began changing the shape of the canvas itself.
π· The Shaped Canvas
The shaped canvas became one of Stella’s defining contributions to postwar abstraction.
Traditional Western paintings had usually functioned as rectangular windows, even when the subject was completely abstract. Stella questioned that convention.
If the composition formed a notch, cross, polygon, or other geometric structure, he could alter the stretcher so the external boundary followed the logic of the painting.
The result changed the relationship between painting and wall.
The painting no longer seemed like an image placed inside a rectangular frame.
It became an independent object with a specific silhouette.
Painting had begun moving toward sculpture.
π Color Arrives
The austere black and metallic surfaces of Stella’s early career gradually gave way to increasingly intense color.
During the 1960s he explored series including the Benjamin Moore, Concentric Square, Mitered Maze, and Moroccan paintings.
Color did not initially mean abandoning structure.
Bands remained carefully organized.
Sequences repeated.
The geometry continued determining much of what happened.
But visually, the transformation was dramatic.
A painter once associated almost entirely with black was becoming one of the boldest colorists in American abstraction.
πΆ The Irregular Polygons
Between approximately 1965 and 1967, Stella created his Irregular Polygon paintings.
These works expanded both the shaped canvas and the use of large fields of color. Instead of repetitive narrow stripes dominating every surface, broad geometric regions began interacting more dynamically.
The canvases themselves could resemble complex polygons rather than ordinary rectangles.
The change introduced a new kind of energy.
Earlier Stella paintings often feel controlled to the point of stillness. The Irregular Polygons begin to push outward.
Shapes collide.
Colors create tension.
The painting’s boundary becomes active rather than neutral.
The transition pointed toward the sweeping curves that followed.
π The Protractor Series
Stella began the Protractor series in 1967 and continued developing it into the early 1970s.
The name came from the semicircular drafting tool, and the paintings are filled with nested arcs, fan shapes, bands of color, and geometric segments.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art identifies 93 paintings based on 31 distinct formats, each format developed in three different designs.
Fluorescent color entered forcefully.
Pink, orange, blue, green, yellow, and other hues move through the arcs with an intensity that feels almost impossible to reconcile with the Black Paintings of less than a decade earlier.
Yet the underlying principle remained similar.
The structure still organized the painting.
The vocabulary had simply become much more exuberant.
π Gates, Cities and Islamic Geometry
Many works in the Protractor series carry titles referring to historic cities and gates in the Middle East, including places such as Yazd, Damascus, and KΕ«fa.
The titles correspond with Stella’s interest in architecture and Islamic geometric patterning rather than functioning as literal depictions of those locations.
Works such as YAZD III transform overlapping protractor shapes into enormous systems of color.
The relationship between mathematical order and visual pleasure became particularly strong in these paintings. Geometry no longer looks restrictive.
It becomes decorative, expansive, and almost architectural.
ποΈ The Youngest MoMA Retrospective
In 1970, the Museum of Modern Art presented a major Frank Stella retrospective.
He was only 33 years old.
MoMA notes that Stella remains the youngest artist ever to receive a retrospective at the museum.
That achievement demonstrates just how quickly his work had become central to debates about contemporary painting.
Within roughly a decade, Stella had moved from the Black Paintings through metallic canvases, shaped works, geometric color systems, irregular polygons, and the Protractor paintings.
Many artists spend a lifetime developing one recognizable style.
Stella had already discarded several.
π¨οΈ Discovering Printmaking
During the mid-1960s, Stella also began a serious engagement with printmaking.
His long collaboration with master printer Kenneth Tyler became particularly important.
Stella initially approached printmaking cautiously because he associated prints with reproductions rather than original works. Once he understood the experimental possibilities of lithography, screenprinting, etching, and other techniques, his attitude changed dramatically.
He eventually became as adventurous in printmaking as he was in painting.
Existing series could be translated into another medium and transformed through the process rather than merely copied.
π¨οΈ Gemini G.E.L. and Kenneth Tyler
In 1967, Stella began working at Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles with Kenneth Tyler.
Their collaboration would continue in various forms for decades.
Early projects included prints based on the Black Paintings, but the process soon became increasingly complex.
Printing allowed Stella to explore layering, repeated forms, unusual color combinations, and technical processes difficult to achieve through painting alone.
The National Gallery of Australia, which preserves the Kenneth Tyler archive, describes the collaboration as lasting nearly 35 years and helping push printmaking into dramatically expanded technical territory.
For Stella, printmaking was not secondary.
It became another laboratory.
πͺ΅ The Polish Village Series
During the early 1970s, Stella’s work changed again.
The Polish Village series moved decisively away from the flat surfaces of his earlier paintings.
These works were constructed from overlapping pieces of wood, board, felt, canvas, and other materials, creating genuine physical relief.
The titles refer to Polish towns once known for remarkable wooden synagogues that were destroyed during the Second World War.
Stella had encountered photographs documenting those buildings through a book brought to his attention by architect Richard Meier.
The sophisticated carpentry of the synagogues interested him structurally, while their destruction gave the series a historical gravity extending far beyond formal experimentation.
𧩠Painting Leaves the Wall
The Polish Village works represented a crucial shift.
Earlier paintings had emphasized their physical existence while remaining comparatively flat.
Now the surface projected outward.
Individual components overlapped.
Shadows formed naturally around protruding elements.
Different materials created different textures.
The boundary between painting and relief sculpture became increasingly difficult to define.
Stella seemed less interested in defending that boundary than in discovering what happened when he crossed it.
The question was no longer simply what could be painted on a surface.
The surface itself could be built.
π¦ The Exotic Birds
Later in the 1970s, Stella produced the Exotic Birds series, followed by the even more elaborate Indian Birds.
Aluminum became increasingly important as a support.
Curving shapes derived partly from drafting instruments were cut, layered, painted, and assembled into energetic reliefs.
The works appear almost airborne.
Pieces twist across one another.
Color becomes flamboyant.
Metallic textures, painted patterns, and open spaces compete for attention.
The restrained young artist of the Black Paintings now seemed determined to make abstraction as visually excessive as possible.
π¦ The Indian Birds
The Indian Birds works of the late 1970s pushed this expansion further.
Forms projected outward from open metal frameworks, creating compositions that could appear simultaneously heavy and strangely weightless.
Stella used bright pigments and unconventional surface materials, producing effects that were intentionally artificial and exuberant.
The compositions have often been described as baroque, an appropriate word for their swirling forms and physical energy.
This was almost the inverse of early Minimalism.
Yet Stella had arrived there through a continuous investigation of the picture’s physical structure.
The painting had expanded until it could barely remain attached to the wall.
π From Minimalism to Maximalism
Stella is frequently associated with Minimalism, particularly because of the enormous influence of his early work on artists interested in repetition, industrial materials, and object-like forms.
The label never adequately describes his entire career.
By the 1970s and 1980s, his art had become deliberately maximalist.
Color multiplied.
Surfaces became complicated.
Curves overlapped.
Forms projected dramatically into real space.
Rather than contradicting the early work completely, this transformation can be understood as the result of taking Stella’s original concern with physical objects increasingly seriously.
Once a painting is accepted as an object, there is no obvious reason it must remain flat.
ποΈ Circuits and Speed
During the 1980s, Stella produced series whose titles and forms drew upon subjects including automobile racing circuits.
Racing tracks offered the kind of curving structures that fascinated him, and their sense of speed suited the increasingly energetic direction of his art.
These paintings and reliefs twist and overlap in ways that can make the eye feel as though it is moving through rather than simply across the composition.
Stella’s interest in racing also had a personal dimension. He was an enthusiastic racing fan and had long been interested in automobiles.
Once again, an apparently abstract language absorbed something from the artist’s life without becoming literal representation.
π Moby-Dick
One of Stella’s most ambitious later projects grew from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, Stella embarked upon an enormous group of works responding to the novel’s chapters.
The project eventually encompassed paintings, reliefs, sculpture, and prints and occupied him for more than a decade.
Stella did not illustrate Moby-Dick in a conventional narrative manner. Viewers do not encounter straightforward pictures of Captain Ahab, Ishmael, or the white whale.
Instead, the novel became a framework for exploring motion, waves, turbulence, structure, and increasingly three-dimensional form.
Literature supplied the titles and imaginative environment.
Abstraction did the rest.
π From Relief Into Sculpture
The Moby-Dick project helped push Stella’s work completely into three dimensions.
Forms that had once projected from the wall became increasingly independent.
Curving components moved into surrounding space.
Stella began creating freestanding sculpture, often using industrial materials and fabrication methods suited to enormous scale.
At this point, calling him simply a painter became increasingly inadequate.
Yet Stella continued thinking through problems that had begun in painting.
What happens to a shape when it leaves the canvas?
How does color operate on an object?
How does an artwork occupy architectural space?
Those questions linked the late sculptures with the Black Paintings more closely than their appearances might suggest.
ποΈ Architecture Was Always Nearby
Architecture had surrounded Stella’s work for decades.
He had shared early studio space with architect Richard Meier, used architectural references in titles, investigated geometric structures, shaped the outline of canvases, and eventually constructed increasingly complex reliefs.
By the 1990s, architecture became an explicit focus.
Stella developed proposals for museums, pavilions, band shells, gates, and other structures.
Not all were realized, but the designs demonstrate how naturally his thinking had expanded from a painted surface toward inhabitable space.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art eventually devoted a 2007 exhibition to this relationship under the title Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture.
ποΈ Painting Into Architecture
The phrase βpainting into architectureβ describes much of Stella’s career surprisingly well.
A Black Painting emphasizes the objecthood of a rectangular canvas.
A shaped painting alters the boundary.
A relief builds outward from the wall.
A sculpture becomes fully three-dimensional.
An architectural model imagines the viewer entering the form.
Seen in sequence, the transformations feel almost logical even though individual works can look radically different.
Stella did not abandon painting so much as continually ask what the word painting was capable of containing.
πΌοΈ A Second Major MoMA Survey
The Museum of Modern Art returned to Stella’s work with Frank Stella: Works from 1970 to 1987.
The exhibition made clear how dramatically his art had changed since the museum’s 1970 retrospective.
Someone familiar only with the Black Paintings could have entered the later exhibition and struggled to believe the same artist was responsible.
Yet that contrast was increasingly becoming part of Stella’s reputation.
He refused to become curator of his own youthful style.
Success did not oblige him to repeat the work that had produced it.
π Color as Physical Energy
Color in Stella’s later work operates very differently from the Black Paintings.
It does not merely fill predetermined bands.
It competes with surface, shape, texture, and depth.
Bright colors can make one component jump forward while another retreats.
Paint can emphasize the twists and cuts of metal rather than hide them.
The result is a strange merger of optical and physical space.
A Stella relief can appear visually deeper than it is and physically deeper than a painting is expected to be.
The eye and body receive contradictory information.
That tension became one of his most productive artistic territories.
π§ Systems Without Predictability
Stella’s early reputation can create the impression that he was fundamentally a rigid systems artist.
He certainly used systems.
Series mattered greatly.
Repeated formats mattered.
Geometry mattered.
But his career demonstrates that systems did not have to produce predictability.
He often established a set of rules and then investigated how much variety could emerge within them.
The Protractor paintings are a good example. A restricted vocabulary of arcs and bands produces dozens of radically different color experiences.
Later series become even more flexible.
Structure provides a starting point rather than a prison.
π¨οΈ Printmaking as Experiment
Stella’s prints demonstrate the same principle.
Working with Tyler and other print workshops, he continually expanded the number of techniques involved in a single image. Lithography might combine with screenprinting, relief processes, etching, collage, or other methods.
Prints grew larger and more complicated.
They sometimes revisited earlier compositions decades after the paintings had been completed, allowing Stella to rethink old ideas through new technical possibilities.
This long engagement makes printmaking essential to understanding him.
The prints were not souvenir versions of paintings.
They were another arena in which the same formal problems could develop differently.
ποΈ The Whitney Retrospective
In 2015, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth organized the most comprehensive Stella retrospective to that point.
Approximately 100 works traced his development from the 1950s through recent paintings, reliefs, sculptures, maquettes, and drawings.
Seeing the career together made its extraordinary range unavoidable.
Black enamel stripes occupied the same history as fluorescent arcs and enormous twisted sculptures.
For viewers accustomed to artists maintaining a recognizable visual brand, Stella’s development can appear almost defiant.
His consistency existed beneath the surface rather than on it.
The question stayed similar.
The answers kept changing.
π¨ Beyond the Minimalist Label
Calling Frank Stella a Minimalist is useful only if the description is limited primarily to the impact of his early career.
The Black Paintings unquestionably helped prepare the way for Minimalism. Their repetition, restricted color, physical presence, and rejection of expressive gesture had enormous influence.
But Stella himself moved quickly beyond the visual austerity that came to define the movement.
His later art embraced color, ornament, physical complexity, historical references, literary inspiration, and forms approaching architectural spectacle.
Few careers demonstrate more clearly why an artist should not be reduced to the movement with which he first became associated.
π Reinventing Without Erasing
What makes Stella’s changes particularly interesting is that each phase contains traces of the earlier ones.
The Black Paintings established his concern with the relationship between composition and canvas shape.
The shaped canvases made the boundary active.
The Protractor works expanded color and curves.
The Polish Village reliefs added physical layering.
The Bird series pushed relief outward.
Moby-Dick encouraged full three-dimensionality.
Architecture followed naturally once artworks had become objects occupying actual space.
The career is therefore less a sequence of unrelated reinventions than a prolonged expansion.
Stella kept opening the same door wider.
π―οΈ The Final Decades
Stella continued working well into the 21st century.
Advances in digital design, fabrication, industrial materials, and three-dimensional modeling gave him tools the 23-year-old painter of black stripes could never have imagined.
Rather than retreat toward the style that had made him historically important, he continued producing complex sculptural work and exploring new methods.
That commitment to experimentation remained one of his defining traits almost until the end of his life.
Frank Stella died on May 4, 2024, eight days before what would have been his 88th birthday. He was 87.
His death closed a career that had begun during the final years of Abstract Expressionism and continued into an art world transformed by Minimalism, Pop, Conceptual Art, digital fabrication, installation, and countless later movements.
π¨ The Artist Who Wouldn’t Stay Still
Stella’s career complicates the idea that artistic maturity means discovering one recognizable style and refining it forever.
He achieved international recognition with the Black Paintings before he was 25. He could easily have spent decades producing variations on the geometric austerity that critics and museums already admired.
Instead, he changed.
Then changed again.
Those transformations were sometimes controversial. Admirers of the early work did not necessarily welcome the extravagant reliefs, and viewers who preferred the later color might find the Black Paintings severe.
Stella accepted that risk.
Artistic success did not mean repeating the answer that had worked before.
πΌοΈ What Makes a Painting?
The question running through Stella’s entire career may be surprisingly basic: What makes something a painting?
Is a painting still a painting if its canvas is not rectangular?
What if its surface projects several inches from the wall?
What if the support is aluminum rather than canvas?
What if the components twist outward into space?
What if the object can stand on the floor?
At what point has painting become sculpture?
And if those forms grow large enough to surround people, at what point does sculpture become architecture?
Stella never provided one final definition.
Instead, he spent decades making objects that kept the question open.
β¨ Frank Stella’s Lasting Legacy
Frank Stella’s place in modern art would have been secure even if he had stopped working after the early 1960s. The Black Paintings alone changed the conversation surrounding abstraction by rejecting the emotional gesture and illusionistic space that had dominated much advanced painting of the preceding decade. Their stripes, commercial enamel, exposed canvas, deep stretchers, and systematic structures helped shift attention toward painting as a physical object and contributed enormously to the development of Minimalism.
Yet stopping there would give an almost absurdly incomplete picture of his achievement. Stella spent the following six decades refusing to remain the young artist everyone thought they understood. Metallic paintings became shaped canvases. Restrained geometry became brilliant color. Flat surfaces became constructed reliefs. Reliefs became sculpture. Sculpture moved toward architecture, while printmaking offered an entirely separate field for technical experimentation.
What remained constant was not a visual style but a way of thinking. Stella approached art as a problem that could always be rebuilt. He was interested in structure, repetition, shape, scale, color, materials, and the physical relationship between an artwork and the space surrounding it. Each new body of work tested those elements under different conditions.
That is why placing an early Black Painting beside a late Stella sculpture can feel almost shocking. One is severe, dark, repetitive, and nearly flat. The other may be colorful, twisting, irregular, and explosively three-dimensional. Yet both ask viewers to recognize the artwork as something physically present rather than simply an image of something elsewhere.
Born in Malden, Massachusetts, on May 12, 1936, Stella entered the New York art world while Abstract Expressionism still seemed enormous and unavoidable. Instead of attempting to outdo its heroes, he found another direction, reducing painting until stripes, surface, shape, and objecthood became enough. Once he had reached that reduction, however, he did not stay there. He spent the rest of his career building outward again.
The result is one of the great transformations in postwar American art. Frank Stella began by stripping painting down almost to its bones, then spent more than 60 years discovering just how much he could build back onto them.
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π Sources & Further Reading
- National Gallery of Art β Frank Stella
- Museum of Modern Art β Frank Stella
- Museum of Modern Art β The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II
- Museum of Modern Art β Frank Stella Retrospective, 1970
- Museum of Modern Art β Frank Stella: Works from 1970 to 1987
- Museum of Modern Art β Remembering Frank Stella
- Whitney Museum of American Art β Frank Stella
- Whitney Museum of American Art β Frank Stella: A Retrospective
- Metropolitan Museum of Art β Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture
- Metropolitan Museum of Art β YAZD III
- National Gallery of Australia β Frank Stella and Kenneth Tyler
