
Art Institute of Chicago
By-Products Plants
Joseph Stella · 1923–26
Provenance
Ownership history
- Noah Goldowsky, Chicago, by 1954; given to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, F. Valentine Dudensing, Joseph Stella, Apr. 10–30, 1926, cat. 7, as By–Product Plants. [probably AIC painting]
- Des Moines, Iowa, City Library Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Joseph Stella, May 9–June 1, 1926, as By Products Plants. [probably AIC painting]
- Associated American Artists, Joseph Stella, Jan. 6–25, 1941, cat. 29, as Factories. [might not be AIC painting]
- Arts Club of Chicago, Twentieth Century Art Loaned by Members of the Arts Club of Chicago, Oct. 1–30, 1954, cat. 41, as Factories.
- Newark, N.J., Newark Museum, The Works of Joseph Stella, Nov. 1, 1978–Mar. 30, 1979, unnumbered checklist, as Factories.
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Images of America: Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography, Sept. 9–Nov. 7, 1982, cat. 127, pl. 25, as Factories, St. Louis, Mo., St. Louis Art Museum, Dec. 6, 1982–Jan. 30, 1983, Baltimore, Md., Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 28–Apr. 25, 1983, Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, May 23–July 17, 1983, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Aug. 15–Oct. 9, 1983.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Joseph Stella, Apr. 22–Oct. 9, 1994, unnumbered checklist, fig. 119.
Literature
Published references
- Irma B. Jaffe, Joseph Stella, rev. ed., (Fordham University Press, 1988), 59–60, fig. 72, as Factories.
- Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994), ill. fig. 119, 95, as By–Products Plants.
- 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. 43.
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