Joseph Stella, American, b. Muro Lucano, Italy, 1877–1946 Search this
Medium:
Pastel on paperboard
Dimensions:
43 1/2 X 32 5/8 IN. (110.5 X 82.8 CM.)
Type:
Drawing
Date:
1926
Provenance:
Valentine Dudensing Galleries, New York (?)
Estate of the artist
Rabin & Krueger, Newark, NJ, to 16 November 1962
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 16 November 1962-1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History:
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, New Yok. An International Exhibition of Modern Art, 19 November 1926-1 January 1927, no. 277 (as Herons). TOUR: ANDERSON GALLERIES, New York, 25 January-7 February 1927, no. 156; ALBRIGHT ART GALLERY, Buffalo, 25 February-20 March 1927, no. 163; ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 1-24 April, no. 163.
DREW UNIVERSITY, Madison, NJ. Joseph Stella: Paintings and Drawings on loan from the Rabin & Krueger Gallery, the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection and the Newark Museum, 24 February-24 March 1963, ill.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Joseph Stella: Selected Works from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, 12 May-17 July 1983, no. 19.
AMON CARTER MUSEUM, Fort Worth. Visual Poetry: The Drawings of Joseph Stella, fig. 120, p. 124-126, no. 33. *ONLY SHOWN AT: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 7 September-12 November 1990.
Published References:
DREIER, KATHERINE S. Modern Art (New York: Societe Anonyme/Museum of Modern Art, 1926) p. 100. republished in: Selected Publications Societe Anonyme, Volume I: Documents (New York: Arno Press, 1972).
Stella, Joseph. "Letter to Katherine Dreier," 26 September 1926, JOSEPH STELLA FILE, SOCIETY ANONYME ARCHIVE, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
LERNER, ABRAM et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1974) p. 715.
KAY, JANE HOLTZ. "Color as Form," The Christian Science Monitor (22 March 1976) p. 24 ill.
BOHAN, RUTH LOUISE. The Societe Anonyme's Brooklyn Exhibition, 1926-1927: Katherine Sophie Dreier and the Promotion of Modern Art in America (University of Maryland: unpublished PhD dissertation, 1980) p. 139, 340, 393, fig. 35. (Published as The Societe Anonyme's Brooklyn Exhibition: Katherine Dreier and Modernism in America (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1981).
Birds: the Smithsonian Engagement Calendar for 1982 (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian, 1982) ill.
DORSEY, JOHN. "Hirshhorn presents limited look at Joseph Stella's strange career," Baltimore Sun (20 May 1983).
ZILCZER, JUDITH. Joseph Stella: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983) no. 19, p. 44-45.
JAFFE, IRMA B. Joseph Stella's Symbolism (San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate ArtBooks, 1994) fig. 28.
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
