
Art Institute of Chicago
A Vision
Joseph Stella · 1925–26
Provenance
Ownership history
- Estate of the artist; descended in the family to 1986; sold, Sotheby's, Dec. 4, 1986, lot 267. Sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, F. Valentine Dudensing, <em>Joseph Stella</em>, Apr. 10–30, 1926, cat. 6.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, <em>Joseph Stella</em>, Apr. 22–Oct. 9, 1994, unnumbered checklist, fig. 174.
Literature
Published references
- "Dudensing Shows Stella's New York" <em>Art News</em> 24, 28 (April 17, 1926), 1, 7.
- Lula Merrick, "In the New York Art Galleries", <em>The Spur</em> 37, no. 10 (May 15, 1926): 80.
- "Women's Art Strikes Distinctive Note," <em>New York Times Magazine</em>, April 18, 1928, 15.
- Ferdinando Santoro, "Giuseppe Stella", <em>Italiani pel mondo: rivista mensile illustrata</em> I, no. 6 (Aug. 1928), 803 (ill.)
- Ferdinando Santoro, "Le mostre di arte di 'Italiani pel mondo'", <em>Italiani pel mondo: rivista mensile illustrata</em>, Mar.-Apr. 1929, 333 (ill.)
- Irma B. Jaffe, <em>Joseph Stella</em>, rev. ed., (Fordham University Press, 1988), 97, 103, 127.
- Barbara Haskell, <em>Joseph Stella</em>, exh. cat. (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994), 143, 150, (ill.), fig. 174, 146.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 44.
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