Art Card: Frank Stella The Fossil Whale, 1992 From Moby Dick Series (Hand Signed by Frank Stella), 1993

Art Card: Frank Stella The Fossil Whale, 1992 From Moby Dick Series (Hand Signed by Frank Stella), 1993

Offset lithograph card (Hand Signed and Dated by Frank Stella)

Gorgeous card depicting abstract expressionist artist Frank Stella's "The Fossil Whale" on the front cover, signed and dated by the artist Frank Stella in his inimitable signature along the bottom edge of the image field.

"The Fossil Whale" from Stella's "Moby Dick Series" was a color etching, aquatint, and relief on custom-shaped and handmade paper originally printed and published by Tyler Graphics, Ltd., ca. 1991-1992. Examples of the larger work that this card depicts are held in major museum and institutional collections worldwide.
Stella worked on his ambitious "Moby Dick Series" from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The resulting collection of paintings, prints, and sculptures interpret individual chapters from Herman Melville's whaling adventure classic, "Moby Dick." Stella's multimedia print "The Fossil Whale," for example, was inspired by Chapter 104, of the same name, from "Moby Dick." In bridging the yawning gap between words and images, Stella stated: "‘I find [Melville's] prose pictorial in a way – the rhythms and everything are like the types of things you can do using shapes."

In 1993, Stella was busy designing the entire decorative scheme for the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, a 2,000-seat auditorium and live performance stage. Stella's murals were eventually featured on the domed ceiling, the proscenium arch, and multi-level lobby and lounge walls. Seating row decorations and box/balcony fronts were also Stella designs. The 10,000-square-foot Stella mural is one of the largest expanses of painted surfaces in the world.
This work has been elegantly floated in a museum quality painted wood frame under UV plexiglass.
Measurements:
Framed:
14.25 inches (vertical) by 12.25 inches (horizontal) by 1.5 inches
Hand Signed Art Card:
7 inches (vertical) by 5 inches (horizontal)
Provenance: University Archives