Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997) was a Greek-American artist. He is one of the youngest
painters of the original group of Abstract Expressionist painters (the so-called ‘Irascibles’)
which included Jackson Pollock, William de Kooning and Mark Rothko.
He is best known for his large-scale gestural abstractions. Stamos’s paintings feature
muted palettes and biomorphic abstractions.
Stamos participated in the 1945 Whitney Biennial and in 1946 the Museum of Modern
Art acquired one of his paintings. The MOMA also included his work in a landmark
exhibition ‘The New American Painting’ which introduced Abstract Expressionism to
European audiences in 1958.