After studying at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, from 1942 to 1946 Joe Stefanelli served in the US Army working as a combat illustrator. He gathered... Read full biography
After studying at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, from 1942 to 1946 Joe Stefanelli served in the US Army working as a combat illustrator. He gathered his first experience with avant-garde ideas within the art scene as of 1947, when he enrolled in Hans... Read full biography
After studying at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, from 1942 to 1946 Joe Stefanelli served in the US Army working as a combat illustrator. He gathered his first experience with avant-garde ideas within the art scene as of 1947, when he enrolled in Hans Hofmann’s School of Fine Arts in New York City. The latter’s art school, which opened in 1934, exerted a great influence on the young painters of the New York School. In 1950 the two important art... Read full biography
After studying at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, from 1942 to 1946 Joe Stefanelli served in the US Army working as a combat illustrator. He gathered his first experience with avant-garde ideas within the art scene as of 1947, when he enrolled in Hans Hofmann’s School of Fine Arts in New York City. The latter’s art school, which opened in 1934, exerted a great influence on the young painters of the New York School. In 1950 the two important art critics Meyer Shapiro and Clement Greenberg selected works by Stefanelli for their “New Talent Show” at the Kootz Gallery in New York. Shortly afterwards, Franz Kline invited Joe Stefanelli to take part in the legendary “9th Street Show”: its in May... Read full biography
After studying at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, from 1942 to 1946 Joe Stefanelli served in the US Army working as a combat illustrator. He gathered his first experience with avant-garde ideas within the art scene as of 1947, when he enrolled in Hans Hofmann’s School of Fine Arts in New York City. The latter’s art school, which opened in 1934, exerted a great influence on the young painters of the New York School. In 1950 the two important art critics Meyer Shapiro and Clement Greenberg selected works by Stefanelli for their “New Talent Show” at the Kootz Gallery in New York. Shortly afterwards, Franz Kline invited Joe Stefanelli to take part in the legendary “9th Street Show”: its in May 1951 by Leo Castelli can be regarded as the official birth of Abstract Expressionism. For Stefanelli that constituted his introducti... Read full biography
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About Joseph Stefanelli: Books
Books & Publications (13)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists
2000
Herskovic, Marika
393 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Joe Stefanelli New Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Sheffield, Margaret
20 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
The Poindexter Collection of Contemporary American Art (Montana Historical Society)
1961
E.G. Poindexter; Frank O'Hara
30 pages
60 American Painters 1960 Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties (Exhibition catalog)