Marriage of Reason and Squalor from Black Series I

1967

Frank Stella

Artist, American, 1936 - 2024

Kenneth Tyler

Printer, American, born 1931

Gemini G.E.L.

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    one from a portfolio of nine lithographs on wove J. Barcham Green paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Benjamin B. Smith

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 38 x 57.7 cm (14 15/16 x 22 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.47.199.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Axsom 1983, no. 7

Associated Artworks

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Arundel Castle from Black Series I

Frank Stella, James Webb, Gemini G.E.L.

1967

Tomlinson Court Park from Black Series I

Frank Stella, Kenneth Tyler, Robert de la Rocha, Gemini G.E.L.

1967

Die Fahne Hoch! (Raise the Flag!) from Black Series I

Frank Stella, Kenneth Tyler, Yann Samson, Gemini G.E.L.

1967


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Benjamin B. Smith, Beverly Hills, California; acquired 1985 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2006

  • The Art of Collaboration: Works from the National Gallery of Art's Gemini G.E.L. Archive, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, 2006-2007.

2015

  • The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, 2015-2017.

Bibliography

1966

  • Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 51.

1983

  • Axsom, Richard H. The Prints of Frank Stella: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1967-1982. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1983, no. 7.

2011

  • Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 51.17. http://www.nga.gov/gemini

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: 20/100 F.Stella 67; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 67-132

Markings

embossed lower right: © [Gemini G.E.L.]; stamped lower left verso in gray ink: Gemini G.E.L. / Los Angeles, Calif.

Wikidata ID

Q74069097


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