#josephstella

[bm-american-art]

The Virgin, Joseph Stella, 1926, Brooklyn Museum: American Art

Size: 39 11/16 x 38 3/4 in. (100.8 x 98.4 cm) Frame: 43 1/2 x 42 1/2 x 3 in. (110.5 x 108 x 7.6 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/352

[aic-american]

A Vision, Joseph Stella, 1925, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

In 1922 Joseph Stella revisited his native Italy and became fascinated by Renaissance painting. After returning to New York, he began to produce detailed, symbolic compositions such as A Vision, which was originally a mural commission. Stella was enthralled by the tropical plants he observed at the Bronx Botanical Garden, and here he imagined a woman growing out of the earth like the exotic flowers on either side of her. This painting’s fantastical subject also aligns it with modern art, particularly the dreamlike imagery of Surrealism. Through prior gift of the Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation Size: 203.2 × 101.6 cm (80 × 40 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76047/

[harvard-art-museums-drawings]

Flower Bud, Joseph Stella, 20th century, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of an Anonymous donor Size: sight: 56.8 x 70.5 cm (22 3/8 x 27 3/4 in.) Medium: Colored pencil and metalpoint with incised lines on white wove paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/330694

[bm-contemporary-art]

Old Woman Reading, Joseph Stella, 1957, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

Medium: Etching

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/73432

[portraitsgallery]

Joseph Stella, Self-Portrait, c. 1940 ©  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

[moma-prints]

Portrait of an Old Woman Reading, Joseph Stella, c. 1900, printed 1960, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Bernard Rabin and Nathan Krueger Size: plate: 5 11/16 x 5 1/8" (14.4 x 13 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 1/16" (38 x 28.1 cm) Medium: Etching

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/60927

[the-met-art]

Single Flower by Joseph Stella, Modern and Contemporary Art

Medium: Crayon and metalpoint on paper

Bequest of Katherine S. Dreier, 1952 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488748

[aic-american]

By-Products Plants, Joseph Stella, 1923, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

While studying art in Italy and France from 1909 to 1913, Joseph Stella was captivated by Italian Futurism, a movement that employed Cubism’s fragmented forms to express the mechanization and speed of modern life. After he returned to the United States, Stella used Futurism to convey the dynamism of American industry in paintings such as By-Products Plants, which depicts the factories that extract ammonia, tar, and light oils when coal is burned. Such mechanical processes fascinated Stella, and he later recalled, “opposite my studio was a huge factory . . . towering with the gloom of a prison. At night fires gave to innumerable windows menacing blazing looks of demons.” Stella invested his factory paintings with this sense of eerie mystery. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Goldowsky in memory of Esther Goldowsky Size: 61 × 61 cm (24 × 24 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/84228/