Protractor II

1966

Frank Stella

Associated Names
Frank Stella

Artist, American, 1936 - 2024

The image displays a series of concentric semi-circles and quarter-circles arranged on a grid. The shapes are filled with shades of muted colors including yellow, green, teal, and beige. The intersecting lines and curves form an abstract pattern.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and graphite on wove graph paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn)

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 35.88 × 53.34 cm (14 1/8 × 21 in.)
    sheet: 43.02 × 55.72 cm (16 15/16 × 21 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.3434

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joe and Olga Hirshhorn, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1979

  • Selections from the Olga Hirshhorn Collection, Huntington Galleries, West Virginia, 1979, no. 158

1981

  • A Collector's Eye: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1981, no. 73

Inscriptions

lower right corner in blue ink: for Joe + Olga / F. Stella '66; center left verso in graphite: A [circled]

Wikidata ID

Q64570355

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