Editing Frank Stella (section)

==Biography==
Frank Stella was born in [[Malden, Massachusetts]], on May 12, 1936, to first-generation Italian-American parents, as the oldest of their three children.<ref name="Artstory2024">{{cite web |url=http://www.theartstory.org/artist-stella-frank.htm |title=Frank Stella Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works |date=2024 |publisher=The Art Story |access-date=May 25, 2012 |archive-date=May 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506192117/https://www.theartstory.org/artist-stella-frank.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> His grandparents on both sides had immigrated to the United States at the turn of the 20th century from Sicily. His father, Frank Sr., was a [[gynecologist]], and his mother Constance (née Santonelli) was a housewife and artist<ref name="Darwent2024">{{cite news |last1=Darwent |first1=Charles |title=Frank Stella Obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/may/05/frank-stella-obituary |access-date=May 6, 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=May 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240505140609/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/may/05/frank-stella-obituary |archive-date=May 5, 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref> who attended fashion school and later took up landscape painting.<ref name="Solomon2015">{{cite news |last1=Solomon |first1=Deborah |title=The Whitney Taps Frank Stella for an Inaugural Retrospective at Its New Home |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/arts/design/the-whitney-taps-frank-stella-for-an-inaugural-retrospective-at-its-new-home.html |access-date=May 6, 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=September 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222113745/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/arts/design/the-whitney-taps-frank-stella-for-an-inaugural-retrospective-at-its-new-home.html |archive-date=February 22, 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref> His father painted houses to pay his way through medical school, with young Stella as his helper. Many years later he told an interviewer, "My father would make me sand the floor; we had to do the sanding and scraping before you could hold the brush and then paint on the wall. So it was that kind of apprenticeship and familiarity."<ref name="O'Grady2020">{{cite news |last1=O'Grady |first1=Megan |title=The Constellation of Frank Stella |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/t-magazine/frank-stella.html |access-date=1 June 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=18 March 2020 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200318151003/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/t-magazine/frank-stella.html |archive-date=18 March 2020}}</ref>

Stella went to high school at [[Phillips Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]],<ref name="Schjeldahl2015">{{cite magazine |last1=Schjeldahl |first1=Peter |title=Frank Stella's Big Ideas |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/09/big-ideas-the-art-world-peter-schjeldahl |access-date=30 May 2024 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=1 November 2015 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20151105112703/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/09/big-ideas-the-art-world-peter-schjeldahl |archive-date=5 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="Jebb2024"/> where [[Carl Andre]], later to become a minimalist sculptor, was in the class ahead of him, but Andre said they never actually met.<ref name="Tomkins2011">{{cite magazine |last1=Tomkins |first1=Calvin |title=The Materialist |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/05/the-materialist |access-date=30 May 2024 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20141019050324/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/05/the-materialist |archive-date=19 October 2014 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=27 November 2011}}</ref> In his sophomore year, the abstractionist Patrick Morgan, a teacher at the school, began teaching Stella how to paint. At this time Stella was particularly affected by the work of the artist [[Josef Albers]], a [[Bauhaus]] color theorist, and [[Hans Hofmann]], an influential proto-Abstract Expressionist. After entering [[Princeton University]] where he majored in history, played lacrosse and wrestled,<ref name="O'Grady2020"/> Stella took art courses and was introduced to the New York art scene by painter [[Stephen Greene (artist)|Stephen Greene]] and art historian [[William C. Seitz]], professors at the school who brought him to exhibitions in the city. His work was influenced by [[abstract expressionism]].<ref name="Artstory2024"/>

In the 1970s, he moved into [[NoHo]] in Manhattan in New York City.<ref name="auto2">Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, Nancy Flood (2010). [https://books.google.com/books?id=lI5ERUmHf3YC&dq=Robert+Mapplethorpe+%22noho%22&pg=PT4399 ''The Encyclopedia of New York City''], Second Edition, Yale University Press.</ref> As of 2015, Stella lived in [[Greenwich Village]] and kept an office there but commuted on weekdays to his upstate studio at [[New Windsor, New York|Rock Tavern, New York]], in the [[Hudson River Valley]].<ref name="Solomon2015"/> The critic and essayist Megan O'Grady visited the studio in 2019, and writing for the [[New York Times Style Magazine]], described it as a "hangar-like structure", its entrance marked by a piece of wood spray-painted with the name "Stella". She called the interior a "vast space more easily traversed by golf cart than on foot", divided into separate rooms for fabrication and display, with a curtain hanging in the rear behind which he kept his spray-painter, his industrial sander, and new works being assembled.<ref name="O'Grady2020"/>