Coney Island
1914 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : Diameter: 41-3/4 in. (106 cm.)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit George A. Hearn Fund, 1963
A kaleidoscope of dazzling color and fragmented form, Stella’s abstract painting evokes the electric lights and energetic crowds of Brooklyn’s Coney Island amusement park and boardwalk. Celebrating the intoxicating and sometimes disorienting dynamism of modern life, Coney Island reveals the painter’s knowledge of Italian Futurism, which Stella was exposed to during a trip to Italy and France in 1910–11. The composition’s circular, or tondo, format links it to Renaissance depictions of holy subjects.
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About this artwork
Coney Island (1914) by Joseph Stella, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Joseph Stella
Joseph Stella (born Giuseppe Michele Stella, June 13, 1877 – November 5, 1946) was an Italian-born American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is also associated with the American Precisionist movement of the 1910s–1940s.
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