Portrait of Clara Fasano
1944 · pencil and pastel on paper
sheet: 12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Joseph Stella
Italian-American, 1877
WA-00029598
Lucano, Italy
PaintingExpressionismFuturism
Representation
None documented
41
Institutional Exhibitions
46
Works in Collection
65
Assets Indexed
4
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Authority Records (3)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
No image
Artists and Writers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
No image
A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
No image
Extraordinary Men
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
No image
The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800�1950
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
No image
Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
No image
In the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975
No image
Portraits
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973–1974
No image
Works on Paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973
No image
Drawn in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972
No image
Ways of Looking
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
No image
Summer Show
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
Field Verification (4 fields)
4 cross-verified · 0 single-source
- BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
- Birth yearMoMA· 93%✓
- LocationMoMA· 93%✓
- NationalityMoMA· 93%✓
Source Registry (1)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Joseph Stella was an American painter and sculptor who worked in Futurism and Precisionism during the early twentieth century. Born in Italy and based in New York, he is best known for his dynamic urban landscapes and industrial scenes rendered in sharply defined geometric forms and vivid color. His monumental works, including the five-panel painting Brooklyn Bridge (1919, 1920), capture the energy and scale of American modernism through fragmented perspectives and machine-age aesthetics. Stella's synthesis of Italian Futurist dynamism with American industrial subject matter established him as a defining figure in early American modernism.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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Movement
Expressionism
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
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Artworks (46)
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Artwork sources (5)
46 published of 63 catalogued · 53 with image
- MoMA17 publishedof 34 catalogued34 img
- Smithsonian16 published16 img
- The Met7 published
- Cleveland Museum of Art3 published
- Art Institute Chicago3 published3 img
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 3)
3 entries · 1 sources
- 1918 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1915 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1920 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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8Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
In collection
Smithsonian American Art Museum
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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