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Theodoros Stamos was born on 31 December, 1922 in New York City, New York, United States, is a Greek-American artist (1922–1997). Discover Theodoros Stamos's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 31 December, 1922
Birthday 31 December
Birthplace New York City, New York, United States
Date of death 2 February, 1997
Died Place Ioannina, Greece
Nationality United States

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1922

Theodoros Stamos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Στάμος) (December 31, 1922 – February 2, 1997) was a Greek-American painter.

He is one of the youngest painters of the original group of abstract expressionist painters (the so-called "Irascibles"), which included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko.

His later years were negatively affected by his involvement with the Rothko case.

1930

During this period, the late 1930s and early 1940s, Stamos held a variety of odd jobs: printer, florist, hat-blocker, and book salesman.

1940

Stamos was one of the original and youngest Abstract Expressionist artists working in New York City in the 1940s and 50s.

He was born on Manhattan's Lower East Side to Greek immigrant parents; his mother was from Sparta, and his father was raised in Lefkada.

As a teenager, he won a scholarship to the American Artists School, where he studied sculpture with Simon Kennedy and Joseph Konzal.

His instructor Joseph Solman, who was a member of the group The Ten, became a mentor to Stamos.

At Solman's urging, Stamos visited Alfred Stieglitz's influential An American Place Gallery, where he encountered the work of Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe, among others.

By the mid-1940s, his career was becoming well established—he exhibited at the Whitney Museum annually from 1945 to 1951, at the Carnegie Institute and the Art Institute of Chicago in 1947, and at the Museum of Modern Art in 1948.

Also during this period, Stamos’ work began attracting the attention of collectors.

The artist’s paintings from the 1940s combine muted earth-toned colors with biomorphic imagery, suggesting geologic shapes or inchoate organic forms.

During the late 1940s he became a member of The Irascible Eighteen, a group of abstract painters who protested the Metropolitan Museum of Art's policy towards American painting of the 1940s and who posed for a famous picture in 1950; members of the group considered as the 'first generation' of abstract expressionists included: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko.

These artists are part of the New York School and they were referred to as The Irascibles in an article featured in an issue of Life where the infamous Nina Leen photograph was published.

1943

In 1943, when Stamos was 21 years old, prominent dealer Betty Parsons gave him a solo exhibition at her Wakefield Gallery and Bookshop.

1945

And Edward Wales Root, who became both a supporter of Stamos’ career and a benefactor of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, bought the first of many paintings from the artist in 1945.

1946

The Museum of Modern art purchased Stamos’ Sounds in the Rock in 1946.

1947

This dovetails with Stamos’ interest in natural history; as artist Barnett Newman observed in the introduction to Stamos’ 1947 exhibition with Betty Parsons Gallery, “His ideographs capture the moment of totemic affinity with the rock and the mushroom, the crayfish and the seaweed.

He re-defines the pastoral experience as one of participation with the inner life of the natural phenomenon.”

In 1947, he traveled by train to New Mexico and the Pacific Northwest.

1948

In 1948 and 49, he visited Europe, including parts of Greece, and possibly Egypt.

For the next four decades, Stamos traveled widely and frequently.

These trips both contributed to his aesthetic development and also provided fodder for his broad, deep intellectual interest in the world’s belief systems.

1950

Around 1950, Stamos began exploring a new approach to abstraction.

Inspired by East Asian aesthetics, he created his Tea House series of paintings, characterized by softly defined geometric forms painted with a limited palette and often overlaid by dark calligraphic brushwork.

Later in the 1950s, Stamos worked with compositions that became increasingly reductive and simplified.

He explored the use of layers of thin pigment, carefully worked, to create depth in his broad expanses of color.

Stamos traveled widely during much of his adult life.

He taught at Black Mountain College from 1950 until 1954 and from 1955 to 1975 he taught at the Art Students League of New York and the Cummington School of Fine Arts.

Stamos was also a member of the Uptown Group.

A year before his death he donated 43 of his works to the National Gallery of Greece.

He is buried in Lefkas, Greece.

Mark Rothko chose his friend to be an executor of his estate, however this led to his involvement in the Rothko Case, a major lawsuit and scandal in the art world.

1957

Parsons became an important ally and connection to the contemporary New York art world; Stamos would show regularly with her until 1957.

1962

Beginning in 1962, he created several long series of paintings; many of these contained sub-series.

The Sun-Box series, begun in 1962, explored hard-edged geometries on flat grounds.

1970

Among the Infinity Fields are the Lefkada sub-series, inspired by the Greek island where Stamos spent much of his time from 1970 until his death.

1971

After 1971, all of his paintings were part of the Infinity Field series.

These abstractions are characterized by broad areas of color delineated by slim lines or shapes; the effect is subtle and meditative.

2018

Through one job, at Herbert Benevy's Gramercy Art frame shop on East 18th Street, he met members of the European avant-garde, including Arshile Gorky and Fernand Léger.