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Cypress Tree

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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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JAFFE, IRMA B. "Joseph Stella: An Analysis and Interpretation of his Art," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1966) I, p. 186, 328, no. 320, II, p. 380, no. 145.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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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
School
Early American Modernism
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Record ID
hmsg_66.4780
Metadata Usage (text)
Not determined
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py22dba6732-f4c3-4a6a-a489-af71387aec56

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