Author Archives: stefanachilles

Stefan Achilles, like his father before him, was an iron worker and machinist at Coulter & McKenzie, Inc, in Bridgeport CT. Sometime during the late 1940’s, he rescued a large, clunky, “etching press”, as he called it, from the company garbage heap, and stored it in his backyard shed that served as his studio. HeContinue reading “The ‘Quarry Series’ Monoprints”

Yayoi arrived in NYC on June 28th, 1958. She had little money, spoke little English, and had few friends.* She did have, however, lots of enthusiasm and big dreams. Greenwich Village was, at this time, the center of the art world (especially abstract expressionism) and, as the song goes, if you can make it there,Continue reading “Yayoi Kusama and Stefan Achilles”

A year ago, I reported on this website that I purchased troves of artwork by an unknown artist named Stefan Achilles. The only information on him that I was able to find were a few of his ink drawings in It Is Magazine (1959) and some letters written to his friend, the sculptor Phillip Pavia.Continue reading “The Stefan Achilles Story Continues….”