Red Flower on Blue Ground

Artist Joseph Stella (American, 1877 - 1946)

Datebefore 1940

Geographic OriginUnited States

MediumCrayon and silverpoint on off-white wove paper

DimensionsSheet: H 16 3/4 x W 10 7/8 in. (H 42.5 x W 27.6 cm)
Mat: H 20 x W 16 in. (H 50.8 x W 40.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Katherine Coffey, 1943

Object number43.233

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Title Details

Published Title Red Flower on Blue Ground

Remarks 1981 TNM catalogue

Descriptive Title Untitled (Red Flower)

Inscriptionsrecto: signed l.r., graphite: "Joseph Stella"Marks and Labels/StampsLabel on backing: "Cooperative Gallery"ProvenanceThe artist; [with Cooperative Gallery, Newark, New Jersey, 1939]; gift to Katherine Coffey, curator, The Newark Museum, circa 1939-1940.Exhibition History"Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature", High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2/23/23 – 5/21/23, Brandywine River Museum of Art, 6/17/2023 – 9/24/2023

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