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Joseph Stella  American  1877 -1946
Born:  Muro Lucano, Italy 
Studied: Art Students League, New York City 1897
New York School of Art 1898
Instructors: William Merritt Chase 
Exhibited: Amory Show, 1913 
Examples of Work: Art Institute of Chicago 
Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C. 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
Museum of Modern Art, New York City 
Newark Museum, New Jersey 
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC 
Yale University Art Gallery 
Specialty: Painter
Style/School: Abstract
Realism
Subjects Known For: Urban environments
Industrial
Architecture
Slum Life
Memberships: Societe Anonyme 
Modern Artists of America 
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One of America's foremost modernist painters, Joseph Stella was born in Muro Lucano, near Naples, Italy.

In 1896 he immigrated to New York City, where he studied at the Art Students League and at the New York Sc... (More)


Joseph Stella immigrated to New York City in 1896. The following year he enrolled at the Art Students League and then went to the New York School of Design from 1898-00. He later studied in Florence. Stella's early illustrat... (More)

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