Arts
Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth
Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth
Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth
Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth
Last February, President Barack Obama presented abstract artist Frank Stella with a National Medal of the Arts, describing the artist as "obviously a legend for his accomplishments as one of the world's most innovative painters and sculptors" and calling Stella's works "modern masterpieces." In his new book, "Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons, 1965-66," former Hood Museum director Brian Kennedy declares that Stella is "one of the most important visual artists to emerge from the mid-twentieth century." The Hood's new exhibit, "Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons" which opened on Saturday and celebrates the museum's 25th anniversary brings Stella and his legendary abstract designs back to the Dartmouth campus.
Stella's relationship with the College began in 1963, when he came to campus as an artist-in-residence, the artist said in an interview with The Dartmouth.