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Prints Inspired by Moby-Dick
Frank Stella, one of the world's leading artists working today, created his thirteen Wave prints between 1985–89. Each is named for a different chapter of Herman Melville's masterpiece, Moby-Dick. Stella's abstract style gives each of these works a tantalizing, suggestive relation to the chapter for which it is named. Stella's Waves series was originally released in groups of six (1988) and seven (1989) and have rarely been seen as a complete group. This exhibition is the first to show this group of prints in New York City. Waves are multi-media prints, combining such diverse media as silkscreen, lithography, linoleum block, hand-coloring, marbling, and collage. They are abstract in style, vivid in color, and imposing in size–six feet high by four and a half feet wide.
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