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Title:Echo
Artist:Theodoros Stamos (American, New York 1922–1997 Ioannina, Greece)
Date:1948
Medium:Oil on Masonite
Dimensions:48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1950
Accession Number:50.37
Inscription: Signed and dated: (lower left) t.Stamos '48
the artist, New York (1948–50; sold through the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York to MMA)
New York. Betty Parsons Gallery. "Theodoros Stamos," April 1949, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 11).
Seattle Art Museum. "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," February 4–April 5, 1953, unnum. brochure.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tribute to a Curator: Robert Beverly Hale," November 16, 1978–March 4, 1979, extended to March 18, 1979, unnum. checklist.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Recent Acquisitions: Twentieth Century Art Department," October 16, 1979–January 30, 1980, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selection Three: Twentieth-Century Art," October 22, 1985–January 26, 1986, no catalogue.
Athens, Greece. National Gallery Alexandros Soutzos Museum. "Theodoros Stamos 1922–1997: A Retrospective," September 30–November 30, 1997, no. 27.
S. P. "Surrealism to Fantasy: A Phase of Miro's Work—Stamos and Kraft." New York Times (April 24, 1949), p. X9.
Robert Beverly Hale. 100 American Painters of the 20th Century: Works Selected from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1950, ill. p. 110.
Doris Brian. "The Metropolitan's American Policy—A Long View, No Blind Flying." Art Digest 24 (July 1, 1950), p. 22.
Robert Beverly Hale. "The American Moderns." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 16 (Summer 1957), ill. p. 25.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, p. 187, ill.
Doris Reno. "Miami's Old 17th Century Friend Found Shining in a New Setting." Miami Herald (August 22, 1965), p. 21E.
Piri Halasz. "Manhattan Museums: The 1940s vs. the 1980s; Part Two: The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Arts Magazine 59 (March 1985), p. 92, identifies this work as the first Abstract-Expressionist canvas that MMA purchased.
Beatriz Cordero inThe Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum, New York, 1950. Ed. Bradford R. Collins et al. Exh. cat., Fundación Juan March. Madrid, 2020, pp. 82, 95 n. 8.
Theodoros Stamos (American, New York 1922–1997 Ioannina, Greece)
1946
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