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Snake-like and geometric shapes covered with energetic patterns of vivid red, yellow, green, blue, and orange are layered to form this abstract, roughly oval sculpture, which hangs on a wall. The shapes have oval, rectangular, L-shaped, and square openings cut into them, and their patterns are created with scribbles, squiggles, dashes, and blobs of color like canary yellow, tomato red, lime green, cobalt blue, and white. The frontmost layer has undulating curves in kelly green on white. Other layers have red and yellow marks against gray, red and silver against white, and blue and silver. A tall rectangle on the right side extends slightly above and below the oval form of the rest of the sculpture.

Frank Stella

Jarama II, 1982

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Medium

mixed media on etched magnesium

Dimensions

overall: 319.9 x 253.9 x 62.8 cm (125 15/16 x 99 15/16 x 24 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Lila Acheson Wallace

Accession Number

1982.35.1

Artists / Makers

Frank Stella (artist) American, born 1936

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Provenance

(M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York); purchased 1982 by NGA.

Associated Names

Knoedler & Company, M.

Bibliography

1989: Strick, Jeremy. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building. Washington, D.C., 1989: repro. 140, 141 (accession number given incorrectly as 1982.53.1).

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 342, repro.

1992: National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 276, repro.

1998: Quantum, 1998, cover, repro.

Jarama II, 1982

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