Project Description
Joseph Stella
Abstraction: A Tondo, ca. 1914
Pastel and watercolor on paper
11 ½ inches, diameter
Signed upper right: Jos. Stella
Provenance:
Edith Gregor Halpert, New York (Sale: Sotheby, Parke Bernet, Inc., NY, Highly Important 19th and 20th Century American Paintings Drawings Watercolors and Sculpture From the Estate of Edith Gregor Halpert (The Downtown Gallery), March 14 and 15, 1973, lot 96
Private collection, US to the present, acquired in the above sale
Exhibited:
Washington DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, January 1960
Traveling Exhibition:
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Manchester NH, Currier Gallery of Art; Andover, MA, Addison Gallery of Art; Atlanta, GA, Atlanta Art Association; Dallas, TX, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Colorado Springs, CO, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Toronto, ON, National Gallery of Canada; Baltimore, MD, Museum of Fine Art; Kansas City, MO, Nelson Gallery of Fine Arts; St. Louis, MO, City Art Museum of St. Louis; Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum; San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Museum of Art; Phoenix, AR, Phoenix Art Museum; Joseph Stella: Drawings, October 1960-May 1962.
New York, NY, The Downtown Gallery, Aquamedia—Modern Masters, January 1962
Washington, DC, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Edith Gregor Halpert Memorial Exhibition, 1972
Baltimore, MD, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Collects: Constuctivism and De Stijl from a Private Collection, December 18 1983-February 5, 1984, no. 32
Literature:
John I.H. Baur and Irma B. Jaffe, Joseph Stella, Praeger, NY 1971, no. 34, p. 33, illustrated
Irma B Jaffe, Joseph Stella, Cambridge, MA, 1970, no. 257
