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1921 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 2017. Known for: Non objective imagery, collage.
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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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •New York School/Abstract Expressionism
Art Subject
- •Non Objective Subject
Art Teacher
- •Hans Hofmann
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Hans Hofmann School of Art, Student
- •New School For Social Research, (The New School), Student
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art