Frank Stella, American Artist Who Moved from Proto-Minimalism to Extreme Abstraction, Dies at 87
Artist Frank Stella, who redirected the course of vanguard art in the 1950s and 1960s with spare, expressionless, but indelible abstract paintings, helping to usher in the style that came to be known as Minimalism, died today at the age of 87. The cause was lymphoma, his wife, Harriet E. McGurk, told the New York…