Study for Brooklyn Bridge
Joseph Stella
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Inspired by the imposing architectural profiles and irrepressible energy of New York City, Joseph Stella completed his first painting of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1920 and returned to the theme a number of times in succeeding years. Stella used pastel as an experimental mode in which to work out his denser and highly finished modernist abstractions in oil.
Caption
Joseph Stella (American, born Italy, 1877–1946). Study for Brooklyn Bridge, 1922. Pastel on medium-weight laid paper, 22 1/2 x 18 in. (57.2 x 45.7 cm) frame: 29 × 23 × 1 1/2 in. (73.7 × 58.4 × 3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 68.214. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Study for Brooklyn Bridge
Date
1922
Medium
Pastel on medium-weight laid paper
Classification
Dimensions
22 1/2 x 18 in. (57.2 x 45.7 cm) frame: 29 × 23 × 1 1/2 in. (73.7 × 58.4 × 3.8 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "Joseph Stella / 22"
Credit Line
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Accession Number
68.214
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