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Exhibitions
March 27, 2020 - June 30, 2020
American Masters: Art of the 20th – 21st Centuries
View the Exhibition →April 22, 2016 - June 4, 2016
American and European Masters: Art of the 19th – 21st Centuries
View the Exhibition →April 13, 2012 - June 12, 2012
American Masters: Art of the 19th – 21st Centuries
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Joseph Stella was born in Italy and moved to New York City in 1896 where he attended the Art Students League under William Merritt Chase. He made a name for himself in the early 1900s as a Social-Realist illustrator. In 1912, however, he spent a year in Paris where he was greatly influenced by Fauvism, Cubism, and Futurism and made a radical change to a more abstract style.
Stella returned to New York to exhibit several paintings in the 1913 Armory Show and from then on was associated with the avant-garde including Duchamp, Man Ray, etc. His work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, NY and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Exhibitions with Somerville Manning Gallery
2022 American Masters: Art of the 19th – 21st Centuries
2020 American Masters: Art of the 20th – 21st Centuries
2016 American and European Masters: Art of the 19th – 21st Centuries
2012 American Masters: Art of the 19th – 21st Centuries