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The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series Lithograph | Frank Stella,{{product.type}}
The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series Lithograph | Frank Stella,{{product.type}}
The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series Lithograph | Frank Stella,{{product.type}}
The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series Lithograph | Frank Stella,{{product.type}}
The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series Lithograph | Frank Stella,{{product.type}}
The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series Lithograph | Frank Stella,{{product.type}}
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The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series

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Frank Stella

Frank Stella

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American (1936)

  • Date: 1993
  • Color lithograph, etching, aquatint, mezzotint, and relief on TGL handmade paper, signed, dated and numbered in pencil
  • Edition of 20/20
  • Size: 70 x 65.25 in. (177.8 x 165.74 cm)
  • Frame Size: 78.5 x 73 inches
  • Printer: Styria Studio
  • Publisher: Tyler Graphics Ltd.
  • Reference: Axsom 216

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about The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series

Two whaling ships meet out at sea, one named after an Indigenous American tribe and the other after the first king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, the latter set upon by a malignant epidemic and a sailor gone mad with the belief that he is the Archangel Gabriel.

Both ships are plagued, one by sickness and the other by obsession, and neither heeds the warnings of the mad prophet. Built out in layers of paper that have been printed using techniques like lithography and etching, this colossal print by Frank Stella employs careful color against warping black and white grids to give the impression of control slowly slipping and giving way to chaos. Photos don’t give this piece proper justice; it is carefully collaged in purposeful layers that constantly pull the eye in every direction and the viewer closer and closer in.

The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series Lithograph | Frank Stella,{{product.type}}
The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series Lithograph | Frank Stella,{{product.type}}
The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series Lithograph | Frank Stella,{{product.type}}
The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series Lithograph | Frank Stella,{{product.type}}
The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series Lithograph | Frank Stella,{{product.type}}
The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam: Her Story from the Moby Dick Series Lithograph | Frank Stella,{{product.type}}
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About The Artist: Frank Stella

Frank Stella was born in Maiden, Massachusetts, studied at Phillips Academy, Andover, and then at Princeton University. Upon moving to New York City, he reacted against the expressive use of paint by most painters of the abstract expressionist movement, instead finding himself drawn towards the "flatter" surfaces of Barnett Newman's work and the "target" paintings of Jasper Johns. He began to produce works which emphasized the picture-as-object,...

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About The Medium: Aquatint

An etching process in which tone is created by treating a plate with fine particles of acid resistant material (like powder resin) and then placing the plate in an acid bath. The acid bites into the plate between the grains of resin and when printed, the mass of tiny spots produces a textured area with tonal effects similar to watercolor wash.

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