The title of this print, Coxuria comes from The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupe. was one of ten prints included in The Geldzahler Portfolio, a collection of works that were published to benefit the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS.

As much known for his printmaking as his painting, Frank Stella pushes the limits of the medium by crafting the beautiful handmade, dyed papers into three-dimensional sculptures. He participated in several exhibitions that defined the 1960's including the Guggenheim’s The Shaped Canvas (1964–65) and Systemic Painting (1966), and has had several major retrospectives in America, Europe, and Japan. He began his extended engagement with printmaking in the mid-1960s, working first with master printer Kenneth Tyler at Gemini G.E.L and later in 1973 installing a print studio in his New York house.