Joseph Stella Works Online
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Original works by Joseph Stella available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pastel collection online
Joseph Stella at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Eggplant, ca.1939
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
2 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Study for Battle of Lights, Coney Island
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
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Hammer Museum, California
Brooklyn Bridge, 1919-20
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Purissima, 1927
Indiana State University Art Collection
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Dance of Spring (Song of the Birds), 1924
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Joseph Stella at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Self-portrait, gouache, ca.1940
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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3 works by Joseph Stella online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Tree, Cactus, Moon, ca.1928
Seavest Collection of Contemporary American Realism
The Red Hat, 1924
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Battle of Lights, Coney Island
Joseph Stella at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Telegraph Poles with Buildings, 1917
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Voice of the City of New York Interpreted (detail), 1920-22
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Joseph Stella at CGFA
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home
The Brooklyn Bridge
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Multimedia:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals
"Joseph Stella Painting with Original Frame, ca.1930"
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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