Background
Theodoros Stamos was born on December 31, 1922 in New York City, New York, United States.
Black Mountain, North Carolina, United States
Black Mountain College
215 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019, United States
Art Students League of New York
Theodoros Stamos was born on December 31, 1922 in New York City, New York, United States.
Theodoros Stamos studied sculpture under the guidance of Simon Kennedy and Joseph Konzal at American Artists School.
During the late 1930's and early 1940's, Theodoros Stamos worked as a printer, florist, hat-blocker and book salesman. In 1943, he held his solo exhibitions at Betty Parsons's Wakefield Gallery and Bookshop. Since 1945 to 1951, the painter regularly exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
In 1947, he traveled to Pacific Northwest. Later, Theodoros also visited Europe, Greece and Egypt.
Around 1950, Theodoros started to explore 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 his career, the painter explored the use of layers of thin pigment, which was carefully worked out, to create depth in his broad expanses of color. In 1962, he created his "Sun-Box" series, which explored hard-edged geometries on flat grounds.
Also, since 1950 to 1954, Theodoros Stamos worked as a teacher at the Black Mountain College, and since 1955 to 1975, he held the same post at Art Students League of New York and Cummington School of the Arts. After ending his teaching career, Stamos traveled extensively and had numerous one-person shows in New York and Europe.
Infinity Field, Lefkada Series #11
Infinity field, Nemea Series #5
Infinity Field
Byzantium III
Grand Blue Sun-Box
Twin Sun-Box
Homage to Milton Avery - Sun-Box III
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The Door
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Infinity Field, Olympia II
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Infinity Field, Creten Series Rizitika #4
Edge of Burning Brush
Purple Color Field with Two Green Lines
Untitled
White Sun-Box
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Corinth
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Archimandrite
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Infinity Field (Torino Series #1)
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Untitled (Columns of Fire)
Beyond Emperors
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Infinity Field, Nemea Series #4
Reward #2
Sunbox
Low White Sun Box
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Infinity Field, Lefkada Series #2
Olivet Sun-Box #II
Infinity Field
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Sentinell III A
The Sacrifice
High Snow Low Sun
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Infinity Field, Lefkada Series (For C.D. Friedrich)
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Moon Garden
Edge of White Dawn #1
Transparent Green Sun-Box
Untitled
Adam
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Untitled
Edge of Day
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Flight of the Spectre
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Deseret
Double Aegean Sun-Box
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October Field
Morning (24c)
Divide
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Infinity Field, Torino Series #7
Untitled
White Sun-Mound
Double Green Sun-Box
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Three Kings
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Classic Boundaries IV
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Aristo I
Cyclops
Rose Sun Box Nr. 2
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Olympia Sun-Box
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Delphic Shibboleth
What the Wind Does
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Delphic Sun-Box #2
Untitled
Spartan Sun Box I
Sun Moon Chalice II
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Infinity Field, Sunion #1
Coney Island
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Old Sparta
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Home of the Sun
Classic Yellow Sun-Box
Quotations: "There is a strong and conscious relationship between my work and nature which finally manifests itself in an impersonal expression."
During the late 1940's, Theodoros 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 1940's. He was also a member of the "Uptown Group".