Signed Theodoros Stamos, 'Infinity Field'. Editioned Screen Print from the Lefkada Series, 1981
Theodoros Stamos (American/Greek, 1922 - 1997). 'Infinity Field', from the Lefkada Series, 1981'. #89/100. Pencil signed, lower left, and numbered lower right. Provenance: From the collection of Louis K. Meisel of Meisel Gallery, Soho, NYC.

Stamos was one of the original and youngest abstract expressionist artists working in new york city in the 1940's and 50's. He was born in manhattan's lower east side to greek immigrant parents. As a teenager, he won a scholarship to the american artists school where he studied sculpture with Simon Kennedy and Joseph Konzal. In 1943, when he was 21 years old, prominent dealer Betty Parsons offered him a solo exhibition at her Wakefield Gallery & Bookshop. Parsons became an important ally and connection to the contemporary new york art world and he would show regularly with her until 1957.

By the mid-1940's, his career was becoming well established—he exhibited at the whitney museum annually from 1945 to 1951, the carnegie institute and the art institute of chicago in 1947, and at the museum of modern art in 1948. The museum of modern art purchased Stamos’ 'Sounds in the Rock' in 1946.

Also during the late 1940's he became a member of the irascible eighteen, a group of abstract painters who protested the metropolitan museum of art's policy towards american painting of the 1940's and who posed for a famous picture in 1950; members of the group considered as the first generation of abstract expressionists included: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko.

He taught at black mountain college from 1950 until 1954 and from 1955 to 1975 at the art students league of new york as well as the cummington school of fine arts. Beginning in 1962, he created several long series of paintings; many of these contained sub-series. The Sun-Box series, begun in 1962, explored hard-edged geometries on flat grounds. After 1971, all of his paintings were part of the Infinity Field series. These abstractions are characterized by broad areas of color delineated by slim lines or shapes; the effect is subtle and meditative. Among the Infinity Fields are the Lefkada sub-series, inspired by the Greek island where Stamos spent much of his time from 1970 until his death.

Museum collections include the metropolitan museum of art; hirshhorn museum, washington, dc; national picture gallery, athens, greece; san francisco art institute; the art institute of chicago; brooklyn museum of art; chrysler art museum, norfolk, va; detroit institute of arts; the guggenheim museum; whitney museum of american art; the phillips collection; among others.
36" high x 25" wide.

Very good. No issues.