Theodoros S. Stamos, American, 1922 to 1997, a mixed media on paper painting depicting a group of desert people. Signed by the artist lower left. Inscribed verso. Framed. Note: The son of Greek immigrants, Theodoros Stamos was a first-generation member of the influential New York School of modern artists. The youngest of that cohort of Abstract Expressionists - which included Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko - Stamos was a devoted practitioner who continued to explore shape and color into the movements maturation in the second half of the twentieth century. Unlike many Abstract Expressionists who took an improvisational approach to their compositions and execution, Stamos always carefully controlled his paint, harnessing what he believed to be an artists spiritual power, which communicates life and meaning to material form. One of a kind artworks. Mid Century American Fine Art And Wall Decor Collectibles.