Joseph Stella was an Italian-American painter, noted for his Futurist paintings depicting city architecture, religious themes, and modern culture. Born on June 13, 1877 in Muro Lucano, Italy, he moved to New York in early adulthood and began his artistic career. Following his studies at the Art Students League, he embarked on creating unique Modernist paintings with bold color schemes and organic, sloping lines: an attempted melding of the natural world with human civilization. Stella quickly became associated with the Futurist and Precisionist movements, gaining contact with prominent members of the burgeoning New York art scene, including Alfred Stieglitz and Gertrude Stein, and becoming close friends with Albert Gleizes and Marcel Duchamp...