
Joe Gould
Catalogue
- Year
- 1919
- Dimensions
- 15 x 12 1/2" (38.2 x 31.8 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Joseph Stella
Artist

Painting
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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Metropolitan Port
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- Joseph Stella
- Year
- 1919
- Dimensions
- 15 x 12 1/2" (38.2 x 31.8 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1919-M030270
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
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- Status
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