Wolfeboro III

1966

Frank Stella

American, 1936 - 2024

Fluorescent alkyd paint on canvas

160 3/4 x 99 3/4 in. (408.3 x 253.3 cm)

Gift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection

73.8

Provenance: [Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, 1967

Photo: Jueqian Fang

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum (Modern Art Pavilion), Frank Stella: N.W. '67, Jan. 11 - Feb. 12, 1967 (Pasadena, California, 1966).

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Expo '67 - U.S. Pavilion, Creative America - the positive use of creative energy, Apr. 27 - Oct. 29, 1967.

Boston, Massachusetts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Jan. 1968.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum (Modern Art Pavilion), The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: Artists of the Sixties, May 23 - June 29, 1969. Cat. no. 21

Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: American Art Since 1960, Feb. 1 - Mar. 16, 1975. Cat. no. 15.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, International Abstraction: Making Painting Real, May 2, 2003 - Feb. 29, 2004.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modernism and Craft, Part 1, Mar. 16, 2013 - Mar. 16, 2014.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, City of Tomorrow: Jinny Wright and the Art That Shaped a New Seattle, Oct. 23, 2020 - Jan. 18, 2021

Published ReferencesMaytham, Thomas N. et al. “The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: American Art Since 1960.” Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1975, cat. nos. 14-17 (pages unnumbered).

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