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The width of the stripes in Frank Stellas’s black paintings was often determined by the dimensions of the lumber he used for stretchers to support the canvas, visible against the canvas as the depth of the painting when viewed from the side.
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Stella’s decisions about structures on the front surface of the canvas were therefore not entirely subjective but pre-conditioned by a “given” feature of the physical construction of the support.