Joseph Stella / Sparrow and Lilies / c. 1920

Joseph Stella
Sparrow and Lilies
c. 1920
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Creator Name: Stella, Joseph
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1877 - 1946
Gender: M
Creator Birth Place: Muro Lucano, Italy
Creator Death Place: New York
Creator Name-CRT: Joseph Stella
Title: Sparrow and Lilies
Title Type: Former
Title: Lilies and Sparrow
Title Type: Primary
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1915
Creation End Date: 1925
Creation Date: c. 1920
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Classification Term: Drawing
Materials and Techniques: Colored pencil, silverpoint, and white gouache
Dimensions: Sheet: 72.4cm x 57.1cm
Inscriptions: signed, lower right, in graphite: Joseph Stella; along right edge, in graphite: 62 x 74 / 48 [circled]
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1983.81
Credit Line: Delia E. Holden Fund
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Provenance: Sergio Stella, Glen Head, New York; [Harriet Griffin Fine Arts, Inc., New York].
Context: 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.
AMICA ID: CMA_.1983.81
AMICA Library Year: 2001
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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