Editing Frank Stella (section)

==Recognition==
Stella gave the [[Charles Eliot Norton Lectures]] in 1984, calling for a rejuvenation of abstraction by achieving the depth of baroque painting.<ref>John Russell (March 18, 1984), [https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/18/arts/art-view-frank-stella-at-harvard-the-artist-as-lecturer.html Frank Stella at Harvard – The Artist as Lecturer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027180442/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/18/arts/art-view-frank-stella-at-harvard-the-artist-as-lecturer.html |date=October 27, 2021 }} ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> These six talks were published by [[Harvard University Press]] in 1986 under the title ''Working Space''.<ref>Frank Stella, ''Working Space'' (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986), {{ISBN|0-674-95961-2}}.  [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/STEWOR.html Listing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120134738/http://www.hup.harvard.edu./catalog/STEWOR.html |date=November 20, 2008 }} at Harvard University Press website.</ref>

In 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the [[National Medal of Arts]] by President [[Barack Obama]].<ref>[http://www.nea.gov/news/news10/Medals.html White House Announces 2009 National Medal of Arts Recipients] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505160005/http://www.nea.gov/news/news10/Medals.html |date=May 5, 2010 }}</ref> In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture by the [[International Sculpture Center]].<ref name="Ottman2011">{{cite magazine |last1=Ottmann |first1=Klaus |title=Action and Spatial Engagement: A Conversation with Frank Stella |url=https://sculpturemagazine.art/action-and-spatial-engagement-a-conversation-with-frank-stella/ |magazine=Sculpture Magazine |date=April 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920100410/https://sculpturemagazine.art/action-and-spatial-engagement-a-conversation-with-frank-stella/ |archive-date=September 20, 2020 |access-date=May 6, 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1996, he received an honorary Doctorate from the [[University of Jena]] in [[Jena]], Germany, where his large sculptures of the ''Hudson River Valley'' series are on permanent display, becoming the second artist to receive this honorary degree after [[Auguste Rodin]] in 1906.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jenanews.de/index.php/nachrichtenarchiv/kultur/51-nachrichten/4654-schrotthaufen-oder-kunst-frank-stella-in-jena|title=Schrotthaufen oder Kunst? Frank Stella in Jena|website=www.jenanews.de|access-date=November 1, 2016|archive-date=July 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716112106/http://www.jenanews.de/index.php/nachrichtenarchiv/kultur/51-nachrichten/4654-schrotthaufen-oder-kunst-frank-stella-in-jena|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He was heralded by the Birmingham Museum of Art for having created abstract paintings that bear "no pictorial illusions or psychological or metaphysical references in twentieth-century painting".<ref name=BMA>{{cite book|last=Birmingham Museum of Art|author-link=Birmingham Museum of Art|title=Visitors' View: Flin Flon VI|year=2010|publisher=Birmingham Museum of Art|location=[Birmingham, Ala]|isbn=978-1-904832-77-5|page=236|url=https://www.artsbma.org/visitors-view-flin-flon-vi/|archive-date=6 August 2016 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160806121124/http://artsbma.org/visitors-view-flin-flon-vi |url-status=live}}</ref>