Collection: Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature

Brandywine Museum of Art

June 17, 2023 - September 24, 2023

Italian-born American modernist Joseph Stella (1877–1946) is primarily recognized for his dynamic Futurist-inspired paintings of New York, especially the Brooklyn Bridge and Coney Island. Lesser known, but equally as ambitious, is his work dedicated to the natural world, a theme that served as a lifelong inspiration. Throughout his career, Stella produced an extraordinary number of works—in many formats and in diverse media—that take nature as their subject. These lush and colorful works are filled with flowers, trees, birds, and fish—some of which he encountered on his travels across continents or during his visits to botanical gardens, while others are abstracted and fantastical. Through these pictures, he created a rich and variegated portrait of nature, a sanctuary for a painter in a modern world.

Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature is co-organized by the High and the Brandywine River Museum of Art and is the first major museum exhibition to exclusively examine Stella’s nature-based works. The exhibition features more than one hundred paintings and works on paper that reveal the complexity and spirituality that drove Stella’s nature-based works and the breadth of his artistic vision. Through expanded in-gallery didactics, including a graphic timeline of Stella’s career and a short film, the exhibition digs deeply into the context of the works, exploring their inspirations, meanings, and stylistic influences.

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Flowers, Italy by Joseph Stella
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Purissima by Joseph Stella
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Tree of My Life by Joseph Stella
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Apotheosis of the Rose by Joseph Stella
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The Water Lily by Joseph Stella
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Still Life by Joseph Stella
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Capri by Joseph Stella
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The Amazon by Joseph Stella
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The Virgin by Joseph Stella
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Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras by Joseph Stella
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The Bell Tower by Joseph Stella
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Spring (The Procession) by Joseph Stella
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Neapolitan Song by Joseph Stella
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The White Heron by Joseph Stella
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Chinatown by Joseph Stella
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Red Amaryllis by Joseph Stella
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Coney Island by Joseph Stella
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Skyscrapers by Joseph Stella
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Pyrotechnic Fires by Joseph Stella
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By-Products Plants by Joseph Stella
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Telegraph Poles with Buildings by Joseph Stella
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Jungle Foliage by Joseph Stella
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Brooklyn Bridge by Joseph Stella
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Steel Mill by Joseph Stella
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Metropolitan Port by Joseph Stella
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Still Life with Vases by Joseph Stella
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A Vision by Joseph Stella
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Toys by Joseph Stella
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The Napping Woman by Joseph Stella
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Red Flower by Joseph Stella
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The Water Lily by Joseph Stella
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The Water Lily by Joseph Stella
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