Timeline

1877

Born June 13 in Muro Lucano, Italy

1896 - 1897

Emigrates to New York in 1896; studies at The Art Students League, New York, 1897

1898 - 1900

Studies under William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art

1900 - 1905

Lives in Lower East Side, Manhattan

1901

Attends Chase’s summer school in Shinnecock, Long Island

1905 - 1908

Works as illustrator to earn money

1909 - 1910

Travels to Europe, primarily Italy

1910

Solo show of drawings at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; exhibition travels to Chicago and New York

1911

Lives in Paris; meets avant-garde artists, including: Modigliani, Matisse, Carra, and most likely Severini and Boccioni

1913

Participates in Armory Show, New York

1914

Painting Battle of Lights, Coney Island is exhibited in group show at Montross Gallery, New York; travels to Europe for summer

1915

Meets Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp at Walter and Louise Arensberg’s New York apartment (Arensberg’s collection becomes the core of the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art)

1919 - 1920

Shows at Bourgeois Gallery, New York, including retrospective exhibition in 1920; Katherine Dreier appoints Stella to exhibition committee of Société Anonyme, along with Duchamp and Man Ray

1922 - 1923

Serves as one of forty directors of the Salons of America; exhibits New York Interpreted, a large painting at the Société Anonyme

1925

Solo show at Dudensing Galleries, New York; exhibits there through 1935

1926

Travels to Europe and remains in Naples for most of next eight years, with occasional trips to France and New York; exhibits work at Valentine Gallery, New York; Galerie Sloden, Paris; and Galerie Jeune Peinture, Paris

1930

Visits North Africa

1934

Returns to New York to live with his wife in the Bronx across from the New York Botanical Garden

1935

Employed for next two years in easel division of Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project

1936

Solo exhibition at the Cooperative Gallery, Newark (later to become known as Rabin & Krueger where Stella’s work is exhibited through 1975)

1937 - 1939

Travels to Barbados, 1938; retrospective at The Newark Museum, New Jersey, 1939

1940

Elected member of American Federation of Painters and Sculptors

1941

Solo exhibition at Associated American Artists, New York

1942

Solo show at Knoedler Galleries, New York

1946

Dies of heart attack on November 5th; buried in Woodlawn Cemetry, Bronx, New York

Solo shows at Valentine Gallery, New York