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Joseph Stella
American painter
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| Born | Giuseppe Michele Stella (1877-06-13)June 13, 1877 Muro Lucano, Potenza, Basilicata, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | November 5, 1946(1946-11-05) (aged 69) New York City, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Art Students League of New York, William Merritt Chase |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Precisionism, Futurism |
Joseph Stella (born Giuseppe Michele Stella, June 13, 1877 – November 5, 1946) was an Italian-bornAmericanFuturist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is also associated with the American Precisionist movement of the 1910s–1940s.
Early life and education
Stella was born to a middle-class family in Italy, in Muro Lucano, a village in the province of Potenza. His grandfather Antonio and his father Michele were attorneys,[1] but he came to New York City in 1896 to study medicine, following in the footsteps of his older brother Doctor Antonio Stella.[2] Mango, 1935 8.5 x 12.25 inches | pastel on paper On June 13, 1877, Giuseppe Michele Stella was born in a mountain village near Naples, Italy. At the age of 18, he arrived at Ellis Island and assimilated the English version of his name, Joseph Stella. His older brother, Antonio Stella, had immigrated to New York years earlier, and was a successful physician who hoped his younger brother would follow in his footsteps. However, after a year at medical school, followed by another year at pharmacy school, Joseph Stella found his true passion - the arts. While enrolled at the College of Pharmacy, he attended the antique class at the Art Students League in New York. By the end of his first year of pharmacy school, he had given up on his family’s hopes to becoming a physician. Instead, he sought after his own dream, and enrolled at the New York School of Art. There, he was a student of artist William Merritt Chase and was awarded a tuition scholarship for his second year. Under the influence of Chase’s lectures, Stella began to admire the works of Dutch, German and An experimental artist who worked in many graphic and painting media, Joseph Stella combined a lyrical sensibility drawn from his beloved American romantic poets Walt Whitman (1819–1892) and Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) with an eclectic artistic vision that was modernist both in subject matter and style. Stella was born in the mountain village of Muro Lucano, near Naples, Italy, and moved to New York City with his family as a young man. Defying his family’s aspirations that he pursue a professional career, he studied art under famed instructor and painter William Merritt Chase. As an illustrator creating magazine images of immigrant, industrial, and mine workers in New York’s Lower East Side, Pittsburgh, and Virginia, Stella became fascinated with America’s industrial landscape. Copyright ©cakestot.pages.dev 2025•
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Joseph Stella
Stella returned to his native Italy in 1909 and studied the work of Renaissance painters in Rome and Florence. In 1911 he moved to Paris, where he met leaders of the European avant-garde and immersed himself in the latest developments in modern art. He was especially impressed by the work o