Brooklyn Bridge | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1987.85
People: Joseph Stella, American (Muro Lurcano Italy 1877 - 1946 Astoria NY)
Title: Brooklyn Bridge
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Study for "Brooklyn Bridge"
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1917
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/309436

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and wash, red, blue, and yellow watercolor on cream wove paper

Dimensions

mount: 13.5 x 10.8 cm (5 5/16 x 4 1/4 in.)
actual: 9.8 x 8 cm (3 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: graphite, u.r.: Joseph Stella 1917

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Fredric Wertham; to his wife Hesketh at his death, 1981, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1987.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Fredric Wertham Collection, Gift of his wife Hesketh
Accession Year: 1987
Object Number: 1987.85
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Irma B. Jaffe, Joseph Stella, Fordham University Press (New York, NY, 1988), no. 275
The Fredric Wertham Collection: Gift of his Wife, Hesketh, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1990), no. 96, p. 81

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