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Frank Stella
St. Michael's Counterguard1984

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Large wall-mounted steel sculpture with overlapping curved and flat metal panels, including a hammered gold disk with circular cutout and a silver crescent band with bold red vertical stripes
Wall-mounted mixed-media sculpture combining a large concave disc with a mosaic-like gold and tan surface, surrounded by angular polished metal forms with painted geometric patterns in red, gray, and yellow, projecting dramatically from the wall and casting strong shadows.
Wall-mounted sculpture assembled from overlapping metal panels in silver, gold, and purple, with a large curved central form striped in diagonal bands of silver and fluorescent red, flanked by jagged cutout shapes and rectangular panels with grid patterns.

Frank Stella, St. Michael's Counterguard, 1984, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Anna Bing Arnold, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Frank Stella
United States, 1936-2024
Title
St. Michael's Counterguard
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1984
Medium
Mixed media on aluminum and fiberglass honeycomb
Dimensions
156 x 135 x 108 in. (396.24 x 342.9 x 274.32 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Anna Bing Arnold
Accession Number
M.84.150.1-.12
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Price, Lorna. Masterpieces from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
  • Rubin, William. Frank Stella 1970-1987. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1987.
  • Smith, P.C. "Late Frank Stella." Art in America 104, no.3 (2016): 33-36.
  • Auping, Michael. Frank Stella: a Retrospective. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
Copyright
© Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York

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