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Factories at Night -- New Jersey
Factories at Night -- New Jersey

Factories at Night -- New Jersey

Artist (American, 1877 - 1946)
Date1929
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: H 34 1/2 x W 42 1/8 in. (H 87.6 x W 107 cm)
Image: H 29 x W 36 1/2 in. (H 73.7 x W 92.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchase 1936 Thomas L. Raymond Bequest Fund. Conserved in part by funds from the Damiano-Nittoli Association, 2015.
Object number36.534
On View
On view
Object NamePainting
Title Details
Primary Title Factories at Night -- New Jersey
Inscriptionsrecto: l.r., red paint "Joseph Stella"; verso: l.r. "Joseph Stella / New York. April 1929"Marks and Labels/Stampsverso: u.r., black ink stamp [in a circle] "DUANE / CENTRALE EXPOSITION PARIS"; l.r. blue paint "joseph Stella / New York April 1929"; back of frame: u.c. printed and handwritten label "Albright-Knox Art Gallery / Buffalo 22, New York / 3 6c"; u.c. printed and handwritten label "7 / SANTINI BROTHERS / FINE ARTS DIVION / 4 / 4016"; l.r. printed and handwritten paper label "COOPERATIVE GALERY / 20 Washington St, Newark, N.J. [handwritten] (factories)"; c.r. printed and handwritten paper label "NO. 53 / [xxx-missing] BUDWORTH & SON / (xxx-missing) RS SHIPPERS / (xxx-missing) York, N.Y."; from old backing: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Joseph Stella, April 20-October 9, 1994; printed paper label " The American Federation of Arts, New York, NY, From Synchronism Forward: A View of Abstract Art in America, November 1967-November 1968"; label removed from old backing: Town of Huntington Heckscher Museum, Heritage of Freedom, July 4-August 29, 1976; label removed from old backing: Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, NY, Shapes of Industry: First Images in American Art, November 4-29, 1975;ProvenancePurchased from Cooperative Gallery, Newark, NJExhibition History"Night Vision - Nocturnes in American Art, 1850-1950", Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME (6/25/2015 - 10/11/2015)
"Joseph Stella Retrospective," Whitney Museum of Art, New York, New York (April 21 - October 9, 1994).
"American Art in the 20th Century," Royal Acdemy of Arts, London, England; venues: Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany (May 8 - Jul. 25, 1993); Royal Acdemy of Arts (Sept. 1 - Dec. 13, 1993)
Heckscher Musuem (June 1976).
"Machines and Manmade Forms," Terry Dintenfass Gallery (1975).
Rutgers University Art Gallery (September 1970).
American Federation of Art (1967-1969).
"Realism Revisted" Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan (April 27 - May 30, 1966).
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY (January1964).
Drew University, Madison, NJ (February 1963).
Atlanta Art Association (February 6 - March 28, 1961).
"The New York Scene," Zabrisekie Gallery (1957).

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