Theodoros Stamos (1922 – 1997) was born in New York. He was the youngest member of the Abstract Expressionists also known as The New York School. Along with Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Richard Pousette-Dart and other members of the group, Stamos became widely recognized as an important and leading abstract painter. Together, the Abstract Expressionists became the first American artists to receive world-wide attention and the period would eventually be recognized as the first international art movement to originate in America.

Initially inspired by nature and biomorphic forms his paintings evolved into large scale color abstractions in which light seems to drift through translucent screens. The works from the Infinity series were inspired by Greece and the time the artist spent there during his life time.

In 1943 he had his first solo exhibition at the Wakefield Gallery/Bookshop Gallery and in 1946 the Museum of Modern Art, New York purchased a painting by the artist. His work can be found in numerous public collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum Modernor Kunst, Vienna, Austria; Museu d’Arte Moderno, Rio de Jenairo, Brazil; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the National Pinacotek, Athens, Greece; and the Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel, among others.

He is the recipient of many awards including Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship (1951); National Institute of Arts and Letters Award (1956); Mainichi Newspaper prize at the 6th Tokyo International (1961) and National Arts Foundation Award (1968) among others.