Sabra I

Date1967

Maker Frank Stella American, 1936 - 2024

Object number2014.25.78

Provenance[Leo Castelli Gallery, New York]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, , November 27, 1967

Photo CreditPhoto: Eduardo Calderón

Exhibition HistoryTacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, What is Real? American Art 1960 to 1975, March 19 - June 19, 1994 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modernism and Craft, Part 1, March 16, 2013 - March 16, 2014 Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum (Modern Art Pavilion), The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: Artists of the Sixties, May 23-June 29, 1969, no. 22 San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, “Untitled 1968” (National Invitational Exhibition), November 9 – December 29, 1968. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University, “Alumni Collectors’ Exhibition”, May 6 – June 11, 1972. Pullman, Washington, Fine Art Gallery, Washington State University, “Contemporary American Abstract Painting 1960 – 1974”, November 1 – 22, 1974. Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum, “The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: American Art Since 1960”, February 1 – March 16, 1975, no. 16. Alberta, Canada, the Edmonton Art Gallery, “The Fauve Heritage”, September – October, 1977. Published ReferencesArt Forum, January 1968 Ishikawa, Chiyo, ed. A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2007, illus. p. 51. Ishikawa, Chiyo, ed. A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2007, p. 50, illus. p. 51 Rubin, William Stanley. Frank Stella, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970. Pp.131, 134, 142 (illustrated). Maytham, Thomas N., et al. The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: American Art Since 1960, Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1975, cat. nos. 14-17 (unpaginated).

Credit LineGift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum

Dimensions120 x 120 x 3 in. (304.8 x 304.8 x 7.6 cm)

MediumAcrylic on shaped canvas