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Biography |
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1877 |
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Born June 13 in Muro Lucano, Italy |
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1896 - 1897 |
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Emigrates to New York in 1896; studies at The Art Students League, New York, 1897 |
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1898 - 1900 |
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Studies under William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art |
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1901 |
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Attends Chase’s summer school in Shinnecock, Long Island |
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1900 - 1905 |
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Lives in Lower East Side, Manhattan |
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1905 - 1908 |
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Works as illustrator to earn money |
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1909 - 1910 |
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Travels to Europe, primarily Italy |
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1910 |
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Solo show of drawings at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; exhibition travels to Chicago and New York |
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1911 |
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Lives in Paris; meets avant-garde artists, including: Modigliani, Matisse, Carra, and most likely Severini and Boccioni |
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1913 |
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Participates in Armory Show, New York |
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1914 |
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Painting Battle of Lights, Coney Island is exhibited in group show at Montross Gallery, New York; travels to Europe for summer |
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1915 |
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Meets Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp at Walter and Louise Arensberg’s New York apartment (Arensberg’s collection becomes the core of the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art) |
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1919 - 1920 |
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Shows at Bourgeois Gallery, New York, including retrospective exhibition in 1920; Katherine Dreier appoints Stella to exhibition committee of Société Anonyme, along with Duchamp and Man Ray |
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1922 - 1923 |
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Serves as one of forty directors of the Salons of America; exhibits New York Interpreted, a large painting at the Société Anonyme |
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1925 |
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Solo show at Dudensing Galleries, New York; exhibits there through 1935 |
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1926 |
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Travels to Europe and remains in Naples for most of next eight years, with occasional trips to France and New York; exhibits work at Valentine Gallery, New York; Galerie Sloden, Paris; and Galerie Jeune Peinture, Paris |
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Solo shows at Valentine Gallery, New York |
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1930 |
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Visits North Africa |
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1934 |
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Returns to New York to live with his wife in the Bronx across from the New York Botanical Garden |
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1935 |
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Employed for next two years in easel division of Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project |
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1936 |
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Solo exhibition at the Cooperative Gallery, Newark (later to become known as Rabin & Krueger where Stella’s work is exhibited through 1975) |
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1937 - 1939 |
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Travels to Barbados, 1938; retrospective at The Newark Museum, New Jersey, 1939 |
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1940 |
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Elected member of American Federation of Painters and Sculptors |
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1941 |
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Solo exhibition at Associated American Artists, New York |
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1942 |
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Solo show at Knoedler Galleries, New York |
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1946 |
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Dies of heart attack on November 5th; buried in Woodlawn Cemetry, Bronx, New York |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Shey Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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2007 |
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The Societe Anonyme: Modernism for America, First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN |
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2007 |
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Modernisms, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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2006 |
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Seletions from the Baker/Pisano Collection, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY |
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2006 |
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Measure of Time, Berkeley Art Museum and pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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2005 |
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Macchine Naturali, Peter Freeman, Inc., Ner York City, NY |
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2005 |
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Still Life - A Vital Theme, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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2005 |
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Villa America - American Moderns - 1900-1950, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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2005 |
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Art In Bloom - Works from the Permanent Collection, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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2004 |
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American Modernism, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY |
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2004 |
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Everyday Mysteries: Modern and Contemporary Still Life, DC Moore Gallery, New York City, NY |
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2003 |
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Debating American Modernism - Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Garde |
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2002 |
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Modern Metropolis, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY |
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2001 |
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Animating the Inanimate - The Life of Still LIfe, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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2001 |
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Eye of Modernism, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM |
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2000 |
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Modernism & Abstration - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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1998 |
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Joseph Stelle: Flora, Eaton Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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