CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/30/2016

Frank Stella: Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné

"Marriage of Reason and Squalor," from Frank Stella's 1967 Black Series of lithographs (based on his seminal Black Paintings of 1958-60), is reproduced from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation's 432-page catalogue raisonné of Stella's prints. "This lithograph combines the first and second versions of the painting of the same name," Richard H. Axsom and Leah Kolb write. "Stella perceived the two versions as having opposing genders. The way he combines them... indicates that the print series makes more explicit the sexual iconography alluded to in the Black Paintings."