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Monday
Nov042019

Joseph Stella: Precisionist

DateMonday, November 4, 2019 at 9:00AM

Joseph Stella - The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme - 1939, oil on canvas, 70 x 42 inches (177.8 x 106.7 cm), Whitney Museum of American Art, New YorkJoseph Stella (1877-1946) was a painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is associated with the American Precisionist movement of the 1910s–1940s.

Stella's professional career left a lasting mark on American modernism, but it was just as fraught and unsteady as his personal life. Following the hugely influential 1913 Armory Show, he became a key figure in the New York art world. His style and subject matter changed frequently throughout his career, reflecting his own search for meaning and identity as an immigrant working in a rapidly changing urban America. Perhaps because of his outsider status, his images of industrial America were his most successful and influential. Indeed, his images of New York City landmarks such as the Brooklyn Bridge are depicted with the power and honesty only truly possible from a truly dynamic mind.

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