Tereisias III

1972

Not on view

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.

Artwork Details

Title: Tereisias III
Artist: Myron Stedman Stout (American, Denton, Texas 1908–1987 Provincetown, Massachusetts)
Date: 1972
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: 6 1/4 × 4 7/8 in. (15.9 × 12.4 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
Object Number: 2021.54.28
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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