CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/29/2023

Lyrical and exuberant, 'Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature' releases this week

"Tree of My Life" (1919) is reproduced from Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature, the first major monograph on the nature-based paintings of the pioneering American modernist whose work is normally associated with Futurism. The result of an important epiphany, "Tree of My Life" marks the beginning of Stella’s exploration of nature and the centering of his Italian identity in his work. He describes the moment of breakthrough: "a new light broke over me… . Unexpectedly, from the sudden unfolding of blue distances of my youth in Italy, a great clarity announced PEACE—proclaimed the luminous dawn of A NEW ERA."