Frank Stella

Creede II

1970

Brown stacked parallel lines form a right-angle L shape on a white background.

Brown stacked parallel lines form a right-angle L shape on a white background.

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Date
1970

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph and screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 × 22 in. (40.6 × 55.9 cm) Image: 10 × 9 15/16 in. (25.4 × 25.2 cm)

Accession number
92.92.2

Edition
67/70 | 7 APs, RTP, PPII, 3 GELs, C

Publication
Printed and published by Gemini G.E.L.

Credit line
Gift of Jasper Johns

Rights and reproductions
© Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/8122

Part of a series:
Copper Series
7 works

A brown stacked right-angle of parallel lines sits at the left on a white background.

Brown stacked parallel lines form a right-angle L shape on a white background.

Brown U-shaped set of parallel lines forming a stepped border on a white background.

Brown stepped L-shaped band of parallel lines sits left on a blank cream background.

Large brown cross made of parallel rectangular lines sits against a wide white background.

Large brown geometric H shape formed by nested parallel lines on a white background.

A large brown T-shaped pattern of parallel lines sits on a white background.

Audio

Frank Stella, Creede I and Creede II, 1961

In Frank Stella: A Retrospective

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Frank Stella, Creede I and Creede II, 1961

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Narrator: In his Copper Paintings, Stella took the idea of the shaped canvas in increasingly radical directions. Michael Auping.
Michael Auping: He begins to ask himself the question, "How much of a painting could I take away and still have it read as a painting?"
Narrator: With their eccentric shapes, the Copper Paintings seem to exist on the border between painting and sculpture. The paint itself contributes to this feeling.
Michael Auping: The copper paint, it's a metallic paint. It's very thick and it's heavy. When you read these paintings in person and particularly at the time when people were first experiencing them, the metallic aspect of the paint, it's basically sparkly metal mixed in with a medium, looks very, very physical and makes the painting look like an object. It does an opposite thing as well, which is it makes the surface a little more indeterminate because it has a slight sparkle to it. You can't quite tell where the surface is on these. With the lines, the empty lines, the canvas showing through in some cases, this also confused your reading of the thing from being an object or a painting or an illusion, etcetera.

Frank Stella
107 works in the collection, 19 exhibitions

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