Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87
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FILE - U.S. artist Frank Stella stands between his collages "Die Marquise von O..." (The Marchioness of O...), left, and "Die Verlobung in St. Domingo" (The Engagement in St. Domingo") at the Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, the gallery of the German Federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, in Stuttgart, southwestern Germany, Sept. 20, 2001. Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday, May 4, 2024, at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, File)FILE - U.S. artist Frank Stella attends a news conference before the opening of an exhibition devoted to him in Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 18, 2016. Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday, May 4, 2024, at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)FILE - President Barack Obama presents artist Frank Stella with the 2009 National Medal of Arts, Feb. 25, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday, May 4, 2024, at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)FILE - A visitor looks at works by U.S. artist Frank Stella, Sinjerli Variations No. 1-5- 1977, while visiting a 19th and 20th-century American and European minimalist and conceptual masterpieces show at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 2, 2022. Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday, May 4, 2024, at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)FILE - U.S. artist Frank Stella stands in front of one of his works at an exhibition devoted to him in Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 18, 2016. Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday, May 4, 2024, at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)FILE - Visitors stand in front of the painting "Abu Hureyea 13" (2000) in the exhibition "Frank Stella - New Works" of U.S. artist Frank Stella in the old tram depot in Jena, central Germany, Oct. 19, 2011. Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday, May 4, 2024, at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)
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FILE - U.S. artist Frank Stella stands between his collages "Die Marquise von O..." (The Marchioness of O...), left, and "Die Verlobung in St. Domingo" (The Engagement in St. Domingo") at the Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, the gallery of the German Federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, in Stuttgart, southwestern Germany, Sept. 20, 2001. Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday, May 4, 2024, at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, File)
