Accession Number
1976/2.143

Title
Newstead Abbey

Artist(s)
Frank Stella

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1970

Medium & Support
lithograph and screenprint on special Arjomari paper

Dimensions
16 in x 21 15/16 in (40.6 cm x 55.7 cm);22 1/16 in x 28 1/16 in (56.04 cm x 71.28 cm);16 in x 21 15/16 in (40.6 cm x 55.7 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Marianne and Graham Smith.

Subject matter
This work comes from the Aluminum Series of prints (1970) which Stella based on his shaped canvas painting series of the same title from 1961.  He combined techniques of silkscreen and lithography in order to emulate the aesthetic of the metallic paintings.  The titles of the works in this series refer a range of things, people, historical events and places, which Stella refered to as "literary or glamorous."  Newstead Abbey refers to property owned by the family of the British romantic poet, Lord Byron.

Physical Description
This blue-grey print is in the shape of a fat H. Within it, areas of white show through as vertical lines The lines bend slightly at the middle creating a diamond shape in the center of the H. 

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
abstraction
geometric patterns
metallic (color attribute)
modern and contemporary art