An abstracted watercolor of a swirling storm of brightly colored geometric shapes.

Untitled

Joseph Stella (1877-1946)

Date

ca. 1914-1918
Medium

Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions

14 3/4 x 17 1/8 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.c. signed in green ink: Joseph Stella
Verso:
u.l. in graphite: FN 1352
u.l. on label: K.S. DREIER'S COLLECTION \ Guggenheim Museum \ Stella \ Sketch for Battle of lights?
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

2005.22
Copyright

Public domain

The Allure of Paper: Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection

July 9–October 9, 2011

This special exhibition showcases one-of-a-kind works on paper never before exhibited together, chronicling the sweeping changes that occurred in American art over the course of nearly 200 years from portraiture and history painting to modernism and abstraction.
Culture Shock: American Artists from Europe, 1913–1953

March 14–September 6, 2020

See American art through international eyes. From experimental abstractions to politically charged themes, this exhibition brings together nearly forty prints and drawings created by artists who immigrated to America from Europe during the first half of the twentieth century.

Location: Off view

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