Tereisias III

Myron Stedman Stout

1972 · Graphite on paper · Modern and Contemporary Art

After attending Hans Hofmann’s renowned studio school in New York, Stout followed his teacher to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he eventually settled full time in the early 1950s. With its community of highly individual, abstract artists, the beach town’s distance from New York allowed Stout the space to develop his iconic, quiet, and small-scale version of what is often called hard-edged abstraction. Stout’s works are always diminutive, marking another difference from the large size of most of his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries. This work’s title references the blind prophet of ancient Thebes, which emphasizes the drawing’s timeless, totemic, and visionary quality.

Artist

Myron Stedman Stout

Date

1972

Medium

Graphite on paper

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020