"I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life."- Frank Stella

Frank Stella,(American, b.1936) American printmaker and painter Frank Stella was born on May 12, 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts. Stella attended Princeton University, graduated in 1958 and moved to New York City.
Influenced by Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock and frequent visits to the New York art galleries, Stella began to paint. He developed the firm belief that a painting was a "flat surface with paint on it - nothing more" and created a technique of planes of color and lines in collage-like compositions which quickly gained him recognition in the art world at the early age of 25. Stella married art critic Barbara Rose in 1961. They would remain together for eight years before separating in 1969.
By the mid-1960's Stella began working with print making as a medium, utilizing screen printing, etching and lithography. By 1970 he received a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, the youngest artist to ever receive such an honor. Many of his prints incorporated several different techniques to create one unique effect. In 1973 he had a print shop installed in his home in New York. Stella is still an active artist living in New York.