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Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997)

Aliases: Theodore Stamos; Theodorus Stamos

Professions: Painter; Illustrator; Sculptor

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    Theodoros Stamos , 1922-1997 Soundings I oil on canvas

    Theodoros Stamos , 1922-1997 Soundings I oil on canvas

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    THEODOROS STAMOS

    THEODOROS STAMOS

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    Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997)

    Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997)

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    Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997)

    Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997)

Theodoros Stamos Biography

(b New York, 31 Dec 1922; d Ioannina, Greece, 2 Feb 1997). American painter and illustrator. Born of Greek immigrant parents, he was awarded a scholarship to the American Artists’ School in New York, where he studied sculpture under Simon Kennedy and Joseph Konzal (b 1905). Abandoning sculpture, he began to devote himself to painting in 1939, a medium in which he was entirely self-taught. In 1941 he opened a framing shop in New York, which he ran until 1948. There he met Gorky and Léger and also framed several pictures by Klee for the Nierendorf Gallery. He had his first one-man show in 1943 at Betty Parsons’s Wakefield Gallery in New York. That year he also met Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman and in 1947 Rothko, Kurt Seligmann and Mark Tobey. His paintings of the 1940s drew on a variety of sources including mythology, natural forms and Oriental calligraphy and were executed in a rough textural manner. Legend of Dwelling (1947; New York, Whitney), for example, was animated by mysterious organic forms set in a primordial background.

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