{"type":"artobject","objectid":18468,"objectnumber":"L.1981.247","sortnumber":"1981  247L","displaytitle":"Plum Island (Luncheon on the Grass)","department":"Modern and Contemporary Art","classification":"Paintings","datebegin":1958,"dateend":1958,"datecomputed":1958,"daterange":"A.D. 1945-present","displaydate":"1958","medium":"Oil on canvas","dimensions":"186 × 215.9 × 8.3 cm (73 1/4 × 85 × 3 1/4 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Collection of Malcolm Campbell, Class of 1956 and Graduate School Class of 1962, and Mrs. Joan Campbell","markings":null,"inscribed":"Signed and dated verso: F STELLA / 1958; titled on stretcher in ink: 5 ELDRIDGE / ST. NYC / LUNCHEON / ON THE / GRASS","signed":null,"catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":"© Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York","restrictions":"Restricted","nowebuse":"True","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":true,"accessionyear":null,"newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Plum Island (Luncheon on the Grass)","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[{"id":2547,"displayname":"Frank Stella","displaydate":"1936–2024, born Malden, MA; active and died New York, NY","datebegin":1936,"dateend":2024,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Frank Stella, 1936–2024, born Malden, MA; active and died New York, NY","displayorder":1}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Multivocal Label","textentryhtml":"<p>\n\tAfter graduating from Princeton in the spring of 1958, Stella moved to New York, where he painted Plum Island (Luncheon in the Grass). The painting was inspired both by visiting Plum Island, off the coast of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and by the iconic painting Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) (1863, Musée d’Orsay, Paris) by Édouard Manet (1832–1883). With his painting, Manet announced himself as a new type of artist; instead of painting realistically, he emphasized painted elements such as color and form. So too did Stella privilege elements that were part of painting’s essential nature as a medium, such as color, form, and line, rather than aiming to depict the natural world faithfully. The fall following his graduation, Stella—already becoming a renowned postwar artist—returned to Princeton to hear the art critic and his mentor Clement Greenberg speak for the Gauss Seminars in Criticism, on “The Logistic of Modernist Painting,” in which he advocated\tfor exploring characteristics unique to painting, such as the two-dimensional painted surface and its boundless formal possibilities.\n</p>\n<p><b>\n\tJames Christen Steward, Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director, Princeton University Art Museum\n</b></p>","remarks":"NSW_WLA – Day 1 Cataloguing"}],"media":[{"id":2267,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/L1981-247","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":"Restricted","caption":"Luna Digitization Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"Jill Guthrie, ed., <em>In celebration: works of art from the Collections of Princeton Alumni and Friends of The Art Museum, Princeton University,&nbsp;</em>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1997).","citation":"Jill Guthrie, ed., <em>In celebration: works of art from the Collections of Princeton Alumni and Friends of The Art Museum, Princeton University,&nbsp;</em>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1997)., p. 310, cat. no. 294 (illus.)","date":1997,"id":852,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/231714876"}],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":1282,"citation":"In Celebration: Works of Art from the Collections of Princeton Alumni and Friends of the Art Museum (Saturday, February 22, 1997 - Sunday, June 08, 1997)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"1997-02-22","enddate":"1997-06-08","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/1282"}],"geography":[],"terms":[{"id":2038492,"term":"American","aatid":300107956,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2052977,"term":"paintings","aatid":300033618,"termtype":"Classification"}],"classifications":[{"id":2052977,"classification":"paintings"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2038492,"culture":"American"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"8.25"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"215.89"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"186.00"}],"packages":[{"packageid":278831,"name":"10282025-DAY1-ONVIEW"},{"packageid":234788,"name":"N/S Artwalk"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/L1981-247"],"displaymaker":"Frank Stella, 1936–2024, born Malden, MA; active and died New York, NY","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Frank Stella (1936–2024, born Malden, MA; active and died New York, NY), Plum Island (Luncheon on the Grass), 1958. 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