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Joseph Stella, “Ellis Island, Young Woman Reading,” 1916, graphite on paper, 9 x 7 inches,signed lower right.
Provenance:
Rabin and Krueger Gallery, Newark, New Jersey
Robert H. Jaffe, Mountainside, New Jersey
To his estate, 2010
Literature:
Frederick Howe, “Turned Back in Time of War, Ellis Island Under War Conditions,” The Survey, 36, (May 6, 1916). Illustrated by Stella on page 155,
Irma B. Jaffe, Joseph Stella, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970, illus. fig. 39.
Exhibition:
Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 22- October 9, 1994.
Discussion:
This drawing was part of Stella’s assignment for The Survey (Magazine) to illustrate an article for the May 1916 issue depicting the immigrants detained at Ellis Island because of World War I. According to Haskell, “Stella’s drawings, more detailed and meticulously rendered than anything he had done previously, captured the dignity and patience of these immigrants as they awaited their destiny in the New World” (p.82).
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