About This Artwork

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, F. Valentine Dudensing, Joseph Stella, April 10-30, 1926, cat. 7, as By-Product Plants. [probably AIC painting]

Des Moines, Iowa, City Library Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Joseph Stella, May 9-June 1, 1926, as By Products Plants. [probably AIC painting]

Associated American Artists, Joseph Stella, Jan. 6-25, 1941, cat. 29, as Factories. [might not be AIC painting]

Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Twentieth Century Art Loaned by Members of the Arts Club of Chicago, Oct. 1-30, 1954, cat. 41, as Factories.

Newark, N.J., Newark Museum, The Works of Joseph Stella, Nov. 1, 1978-Mar. 30, 1979, unnumbered checklist, as Factories.

San Francisco, Ca., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Images of America: Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography, Sept. 9-Nov. 7, 1982, cat. 127, pl. 25, as Factories, traveled to St. Louis, Mo., St. Louis Art Museum, Dec. 6, 1982-Jan. 30, 1983, Baltimore, Md., Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 28-Apr. 25, 1983, Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, May 23-July 17, 1983, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Aug. 15-Oct. 9, 1983.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Joseph Stella, Apr. 22-Oct. 9, 1994, unnumbered checklist, fig. 119.

Publication History

Irma B. Jaffe, Joseph Stella, rev. ed., (Fordham University Press, 1988), pp. 59-60, fig. 72, as Factories.

Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994), ill. fig. 119, p. 95, as By-Products Plants.

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. 43.

Ownership History

Noah Goldowsky, Chicago, Ill., by 1954; given to the Art Institute of Chicago.