Portrait of Clara Fasano
1944 · pencil and pastel on paper
sheet: 12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Joseph Stella
Italian-American, 1877
Lucano, Italy
PaintingExpressionismFuturism
Representation
None documented
41
Institutional Exhibitions
46
Works in Collection
65
Assets Indexed
4
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0
Publications Referenced
90%
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- • Expressionism
- • Futurism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
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Artists and Writers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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Extraordinary Men
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800�1950
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
About
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Joseph Stella was an American painter and sculptor who worked in Futurism and Precisionism during the early twentieth century. Born in Italy and based in New York, he is best known for his dynamic urban landscapes and industrial scenes rendered in sharply defined geometric forms and vivid color. His monumental works, including the five-panel painting Brooklyn Bridge (1919, 1920), capture the energy and scale of American modernism through fragmented perspectives and machine-age aesthetics. Stella's synthesis of Italian Futurist dynamism with American industrial subject matter established him as a defining figure in early American modernism.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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