About This Artwork

Joseph Stella
American, 1877-1946, born Italy

A Vision, 1925/26

Oil on canvas
203.2 x 101.6 cm (80 x 40 in.)
Signed lower right: Joseph Stella
Through prior gift of the Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation, 1990.79

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, F. Valentine Dudensing, Joseph Stella, April 10-30, 1926, cat. 6.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Joseph Stella, April 22-October 9, 1994, unnumbered checklist, fig. 174.

Publication History

"Dudensing Shows Stella's New York" Art News 24, 28 (April 17, 1926), pp. 1, 7.

"Women's Art Strikes Distinctive Note," New York Times Magazine, April 18, 1928, p. 15.

Irma B. Jaffe, Joseph Stella, rev. ed., (Fordham University Press, 1988), pp. 97, 103, 127.

Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994), pp. 143, 150, ill. fig. 174, p. 146.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 44.

Ownership History

Estate of the artist; descended in the family to 1986; sold, Sotheby's, Dec. 4, 1986, lot 267. Sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.