Joseph Stella - Old Woman Reading

Old Woman Reading

Joseph Stella's original etching, "Old Woman Reading" is an printed upon 'Rives' watermarked laid paper and with full deckled margins as published by the Rabin & Krueger Gallery in Newark, New Jersey in 1961 in the limited edition of thirty impressions, the plate was then cancelled. "Old Woman Reading" is a fine, original example of the portrait art by the American artist, Joseph Stella.

Original Etching by the American artist, Joseph Stella.

Old Woman Reading

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Title:	Old Woman Reading
Artist:	Stella, Joseph (Italy, 1877 - New York, 1946)
Date:	c. 1920 (Posthumous Edition 1961)
Medium:	Original Etching
Publisher:	Rabin & Krueger Gallery, Newark
Note:	Joseph Stella: One of America's most famous artists of the early twentieth century, Joseph Stella emigrated to New York from Italy at the age of seventeen. He originally intended to become a medical doctor but his artistic talents led him to enrol at the New York School of Art where he studied under William Merritt Chase. From 1900 Stella often visited Europe where he studied not only the art of the Old Masters but recent directions of the Modernists, such as Post-Impressionism and Cubism. Joseph Stella attended the famous 1911 Paris exhibition of the Italian Futurist painters. Their exploration of the relationships among motion, speed and light influenced Stella's art and for the following decade he pioneered Futurism in America. It is not an overstatement to write that his famous Futurist paintings of Coney Island and Brooklyn Bridge brought modern art to the United States.
	Yet the influential career of Joseph Stella is a nightmare for art critics, historians and other scholars who insist upon categorizing artists by movements and styles. Throughout his working life, Joseph Stella easily moved among Realism, Abstraction and Surrealism. Rarely dating his work he explored any past or modern style within his own unique art. Stella wrote, "The first need of the artist is absolute freedom, freedom from schools, from advisors, from critics and their so-called friends."
Edition:	During his career Joseph Stella created around ten original etchings. Most were printed in only a handful of artist proofs during his life. In 1961 the Rabin and Krueger gallery acquired the plate for Old Woman Reading and printed a limited, posthumous edition of thirty impressions. The plate was then cancelled. This truly magnificent figure study showcases Stella's Realist genius.
	Limited edition of thirty impressions, numbered 16/30.
Provenance:	From the Rabin & Krueger Gallery, Newark, N. J.
Size:	5 5/8 X 5 1/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Condition:	Printed upon 'Rives' watermarked laid paper and with full deckled margins as published in Newark, New Jersey in 1961 in the limited edition of thirty impressions. Numbered '16/30' and bearing the official stamp of the Gallery along the extreme lower margin. Very faint foxing exists in the outer margins, else a finely printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. This original etching represents a prime example of the famous art of Joseph Stella.
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