Detail View: The AMICA Library: Lilies and Sparrow
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1983.81
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AMICA Library Year:
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2001
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Stella, Joseph
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Creator Nationality:
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North American; American
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1877 - 1946
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Birth Place:
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Muro Lucano, Italy
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Creator Death Place:
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New York
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Joseph Stella
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Title:
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Sparrow and Lilies
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Title Type:
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Former
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Title:
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Lilies and Sparrow
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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c. 1920
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Creation Start Date:
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1915
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Creation End Date:
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1925
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Materials and Techniques:
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Colored pencil, silverpoint, and white gouache
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Classification Term:
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Drawing
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Dimensions:
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Sheet: 72.4cm x 57.1cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1983.81
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Credit Line:
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Delia E. Holden Fund
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Inscriptions:
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signed, lower right, in graphite: Joseph Stella; along right edge, in graphite: 62 x 74 / 48 [circled]
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Rights:
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Provenance:
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Sergio Stella, Glen Head, New York; [Harriet Griffin Fine Arts, Inc., New York].
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Context:
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Stella made nature studies throughout his career. For this simple, spare composition he used metalpoint, a medium associated with the Italian Renaissance and rarely seen in the 20th century. Although metalpoint cannot be erased, its unique qualities-precision, delicacy, and sharpness-appealed to Stella and he often combined it with colored pencils to achieve a brilliance almost equal to oil painting. The careful execution and large size of this sheet suggest that Stella considered it a finished work of art.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1983.81.tif
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