Cypress Tree

Object Details

Artist

Joseph Stella, American, b. Muro Lucano, Italy, 1877–1946

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Rabin & Krueger Gallery, Newark, NJ

Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, to 23 July 1962

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 23 July 1962-17 May 1966

Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Exhibition History

GALLERIA ANGIPORTO, Naples. Mostra di Arte del Pittore Giuseppe Stella, May 1929.

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. Joseph Stella, November-December 1963, no. 58.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Joseph Stella: Selected Works from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, 12 May-17 July 1983, no. 20. TOUR: COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART, Columbus, OH, 11 February-25 March 1984.

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. Joseph Stella, 21 April-9 October 1994, p. 271, no ill.

Published References

STELLA PAPERS. microfilm no. 347, frame 40 ff.

WHITNEY PAPERS. microfilm roll no. N689, frames 92, 109-110, 443.

JAFFE, IRMA B. "Joseph Stella: An Analysis and Interpretation of his Art," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1966) I, p. 186, 328, no. 320, II, p. 380, no. 145.

JAFFE, IRMA B. Joseph Stella (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970) p. 189, pl. 85.

JACOBS, JAY. "Collector: Joseph H. Hirshhorn," Art in America 57 (July-August 1969) ill. p. 62.

BAUR, JOHN I.H. Joseph Stella (New York: Praeger, 1971) p. 21, 51, pl. 79.

JACOBS, JAY. "Quality as Well as Quantity: Joseph H. Hirshhorn," in Lipman, Jean ed. The Collector in America (New York: Viking, 1971) ill. p. 88.

LERNER, ABRAM ed. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1974) p. 751.

ZILCZER, JUDITH. Joseph Stella: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983) no. 20, p. 46.

COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART. Columbus Museum of Art: March 1984 Calendar, ill. under "Tuesday 13."

FINCH, CHRISTOPHER. American Watercolors (New York: Abbeville Press, 1986) fig. 261.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

(c. 1927)

Accession Number

66.4780

Type

Painting

Medium

Gouache and pencil on paper

Dimensions

41 X 27 5/16 IN. (103.9 X 69.4 CM.)

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School

Early American Modernism

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Record ID

hmsg_66.4780

Metadata Usage (text)

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