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Portrait of Edgard Varèse

Joseph Stella

Portrait of Edgard Varèse

1920

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Joseph Stella

Portrait of Edgard Varèse

1920

Physical Qualities Silverpoint, Sheet: 559 x 406 mm. (22 x 16 in.)
Credit Line Special Fund for the Purchase of Art
Object Number 1963.114
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase from Schoelkoph Gallery, New York, 1963; purchased from Estate of Joseph Stella, c. 1957; for a time in the posession of Varèse, later reclaimed by Stella.
"The Twenties Revisited," The Gallery of Modern Art, uncluding the Huntington Hartford Collection, June 29-September 6, 1965, cat. p. 11 (not illust.).

"Visual Poetry: The Drawings of Joseph Stella", Amon Carter Museum, February 23- April 22, 1990, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 19- July 22, 1990, National Museum of American Art, September 7-November 12, 1990. Catalogue by Joann Moser, fig # 19 (illust.).

"As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum's Collection," Baltimore Museum of Art, May 14- August 11, 1991.

"Joseph Stella," Whitney Museum of American Art, April 22- October 9,1994. Catalogue by Barbara Haskell, no. 149, p. 125 (illust.). (drawing removed September 18).

"Aaron Copelands's America," Weckscer Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, November 4, 2000- January 21, 2001.

Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel, "Edgard Varese, 1883 - 1965" April 28, 2006 - August 27, 2006.
Haskell, Barbara. Joseph Stella; New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, dist. by Abrams, 1994, no. 149 (illust.).
Moser, Joann. Visual Poetry: The Drawings of Joseph Stella; Washington" Smithsonian Institution Press, published for the National Museum of American Art, 1990, Fig. 19, p. 16 (illust.).
Drawings by Joseph Stella, Newark, 1962, illust. # 126.

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Joseph Stella

1876–1945

American, born Italy, 1877-1946
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