"“Most collectors buy what they like and what moves them, for whatever the reason,” he says. “I don't think Frank formed his collection from an academic or even a particularly ethnographic interest. It was much more based on visual impact.”"
"Stella acquired a trove of Navajo rugs and blankets over the course of four decades, drawn to their striking optical effects and resonance with his own work. The exhibition features 55 weavings from the 19th and early 20th centuries."
"The exhibition has been organised by the New Hampshire-based art dealer Peter Pap, who specialises in textiles and worked with Stella's widow, Harriet McGurk, to catalogue the collection and conserve the weavings as needed."
"Stella acquired most of his collection from the art dealer and curator Tony Berlant, who included a work from the artist's collection in the groundbreaking show The Navajo Blanket at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) in 1972. Stella lent a loosely woven 19th-century blanket with a banded design within a backdrop of natural white wool yarn."
An exhibition of Navajo (Diné) weavings from Frank Stella’s collection opens in New York on 15 May and runs until 10 June. The show presents 55 works from the 19th and early 20th centuries, highlighting optical effects and visual resonance with Stella’s own artistic practice. Peter Pap, a New Hampshire-based textile specialist, organized the exhibition and worked with Stella’s widow, Harriet McGurk, to catalogue and conserve the weavings. Pap characterizes the collection as highly personal rather than encyclopaedic, emphasizing that Stella collected what moved him visually. Stella acquired many pieces from dealer and curator Tony Berlant, and a work from Stella’s collection appeared in the 1972 LACMA exhibition The Navajo Blanket. The exhibition also places Stella within a broader lineage of artists who collected Navajo textiles.
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