Brooklyn Bridge by Joseph Stella - New Haven, CT
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Abstract representation of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, displayed at the Yale University Art Gallery, on a 2013 U.S. postage stamp.
Waymark Code: WM195NC
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 11/30/2023
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In 2013, the U.S. Postal Service commemorated Modern Art in America with a sheet of twelve postage stamps each portraying a work of modern art. Making the cut was this 1919-1920 oil-on-canvas painting by Italian emigrant Joseph Stella. When he first came to America at the end of the nineteenth century, Stella had been painting portraits and realistic industrial scenes, but by the early twentieth century, he was moving into precisionism and futurism, reducing objects to their essential geometry and using intersecting planes to create a fragmented effect.
The Brooklyn Bridge was one of Stella’s favorite subjects, painting it many times with varying degrees of abstraction. This particular version from the Yale University Art Museum is his best-known work. He considered the bridge to be like a cathedral of modernism and used color and geometric shapes to create an image not unlike that of a stained-glass window.
Stamp Issuing Country: United States
Date of Issue: 7-Mar-2013
Denomination: (46c)
Color: multicolored
Stamp Type: Single Stamp
Relevant Web Site: Not listed
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