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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1987.83
People
Joseph Stella, American (Muro Lurcano Italy 1877 - 1946 Astoria NY)
Title
Brooklyn Bridge
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Study for "Brooklyn Bridge"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1917
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309527

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and blue pencil on white wove paper
Dimensions
30.3 x 21.7 cm (11 15/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, lower center: Joseph Stella

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Fredric Wertham; to his wife Hesketh at his death, 1981, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1987.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Fredric Wertham Collection, Gift of his wife Hesketh
Accession Year
1987
Object Number
1987.83
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Irma B. Jaffe, Joseph Stella, Fordham University Press (New York, NY, 1988), no. 270
  • The Fredric Wertham Collection: Gift of his Wife, Hesketh, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1990), no. 94, p. 81; reproduced in color p. 33
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 23 on p. 92

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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