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Theodoros S Stamos

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Theodoros S Stamos (1922 - 1997) was active/lived in New York.  Theodoros Stamos is known for Abstract expressionist painting, biomorph, geometric, surrealism.

A first-generation Abstract Expressionists, Theodoros Stamos is known for paintings done later in his career, which is large expanses of dissolved light. Underestimated at first by Clement Greenberg, New York critic whose commentary often decided the reputation of Abstract Expressionists, Greenberg later wrote: I scorched his show and I was wrong. You keep on learning." (Falk 3138)

Of his painting, Stamos said: "The great figurative painters were involved with grandeur of vision, using the figure as a means to an end, whereas today the best of the abstrtact painters are also involved with a grandeur of vision using color as their means toward a new space-light." (Herskovic 318)

Stamos was also an art educator and held positions at the Art Students League, Columbia University, Black Mountain College and Brandeis University.

Stamos was born in Manhattan to Greek immigrant parents and studied sculpture for three years, 1936 to 1939, at the American Artist's School. In   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 17633 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  120
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Theodoros S Stamos
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art Times Masterworks: Selections from the September 2004 Steiner, Raymond J No
ARTnews Portrait of the Art World October 2002 Editors, ARTnews No
American Art Review Greek American Artists of 20th Cen December 1999 Selz, Peter, Thalia Selz Yes
Art in America Art World March 1997 Cash, Stephanie, David Ebony No
120 Book References for Theodoros S Stamos
Year Author Title Pages Color
2010 Editor Tonalism: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, George Inness, Leon Dabo, Theodore Stamos, Xavier Martinez, Jack Cassinetto, Dwight William Tryon 78 Yes
2010 Mattison, Robert S. (Hollis Taggart Galleries) Theodoros Stamos: A Communion with Nature 104 Yes
2008 Fleming, Geoffrey K. and Sara Evans (Southold Historical Society) A Shared Aesthetic: Artists of Long Island's North Fork 250 Yes
2008 Olds, Kirsten (Hollis Taggart Galleries) Theodoros Stamos: Infinity and Beyond
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
2007 Wechsler, Jeffrey (Hollis Taggart Galleries) Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Herskovic, Marika (editor) American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey 372 Yes
2001 Siedell, Daniel A. American Paintings from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: An Institutional History in Pictures
(Exhibition catalog)		 9 Yes
2001 Wilkin, Karen and Bruce Guenther Clement Greenburg: A Critic's Collection Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
2000 Herskovic, Marika New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists 393 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Passantino, Erika D (editor) The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making 819 Yes
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1997 Kafetsi, Anna (Editor) Theodoros Stamos: A Retrospective
(Exhibition catalog)		 497 Yes
1996 Bianchi, Dr. Robert Steven Theodoros Stamos
(Exhibition catalog)		 44 Yes
1994 Bianchi, Dr. Robert Steven Abstract Expressionism 3 X 34 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Messinger, Lisa Abstract Expressionism Works on Paper 163 Yes
1992 Kingsley, April The Turning Point Abstract Expression and the Transformation of American Art 416 Yes
1991 Cavaliere, Barbara Theodoros Stamos An Overview
(Exhibition catalog)		 63 Yes
1991 Falk, Peter Hastings Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 335 No
1991 Hall, Lee Betty Parsons Artist, Dealer, Collector 192 Yes
1991 Polcari, Stephen Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience 408 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1989 Spanierman Gallery American Works on Paper III
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Painting 418 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Leverkusen, Stadtisches Museum Theodoros Stamos Malerei von 1946 bis 1987 78 Yes
1987 Newport Harbor Art Museum The Interpretive Link Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expression
(Exhibition catalog)		 201 Yes
1987 Sandler, Irving The Empire State Collection Art for the Public 214 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Deeds, Daphne Anderson Arizona Collects Twentieth Century Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Munson Williams-Proctor Inst Two Hundred Years of American Art 101 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1984 Cavaliere, Barbara/T F Wolff Theodoros Stamos
(Exhibition catalog)		 319 Yes
1984 Foshay, Ellen M Reflections of Nature Flowers in American Art 202 Yes
1984 Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 No
1984 Hunter, Sam The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection 599 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Myers, John Bernard Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World 285 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro) Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
(Exhibition catalog)		 298 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Hobbs, Robert/Gail Levin Abstract Expression The Formative Years
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1978 Whitney Museum American Art 1934-1956 Selections from Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1977 Wechsler, Jeffrey Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947
(Exhibition catalog)		 116 Yes
1977 Whitney Museum Lawrence H Bloedel Bequest Selections and Related Works 56 No
1976 McShine, Kynaston The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 178 Yes
1975 Alloway, Lawrence Topics in American Art Since 1945 283 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward) The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 284 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1973 927 No
1973 Mendelowitz, Daniel M A History of American Art 662 No
1972 Ashton, Dore The New York School A Cultural Reckoning 246 No
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Graham, F Lanier Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor 111 Yes
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1970 Pomeroy, Ralph Stamos 273 Yes
1969 Phillips, Michael/Andrew Hyde A Memorial Exhibition The Nathanial Saltonstall Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1968 Barker, Virgil From Realism to Reality in Recent American Painting 93 No
1968 Finch College Museum of Art Betty Parsons' Private Collection 24 No
1968 Rubin, William S Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (Museum of Modern Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 252 No
1968 Sweeney, James Johnson Signals in the Sixties
(Exhibition catalog)		 1968 No
1968 University of Oklahoma East Coast-West Coast Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1967 Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques 342 No
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1966 Green, Samuel M American Art A Historical Survey 706 No
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1966 McNight, Robert J Sixty Paintings Brooks Memorial Art Gallery 70 No
1966 Metropolitan Museum of Art 200 Years of Watercolor Painting Centennial of American Watercolor Society
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1965 Geldzahler, Henry American Painting in the Twentieth Century 236 No
1965 University of Illinois Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 210 No
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 91 Yes
1963 International Assoc. of Art Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ... 119 No
1963 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Art Collections/Univ of Nebraska A Selection of Works/Inauguration of Sheldon Memorial
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1962 Goodrich, Lloyd/Edward Bryant Forty Artists under Forty From the Whitney Museum of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1962 Hunter, Sam American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1961 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists
(Exhibition catalog)		 1961 No
1960 Sawyer, Kenneth B Stamos 46 Yes
1960 Walker Art Center 60 American Painters 1960 Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties
(Exhibition catalog)		 78 Yes
1959 Musee National D'Art Moderne Jackson Pollock et la Nouvelle Peinture Americaine
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1958 Baur, John I H Nature in Abstraction Relation to Nature in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1958 Museum of Modern Art La Nouvelle Peinture Americaine The New American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 Yes
1958 Museum of Modern Art Die neue amerikanische Malerei The New American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 50 No
1957 American Abstract Artists The World of Abstract Art 167 Yes
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1957 Seuphor, Michel Dictionary of Abstract Painting with a History of Abstract Painting 305 Yes
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1956 Tate Gallery Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1955 Baur, John I H/Rosalind Irvine The New Decade 35 American Painters and Sculptors
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 No
1955 Hayes, Bartlett H Jr The Naked Truth and Personal Vision The Length of the Artistic Road (Addison Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1955 Museum of Modern Art El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1951 Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum 100 American Painters of the 20th Century 132 Yes
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