Skip to main content

Visit Main Menu Block

  • Hours & Admission
  • Accessibility & Amenities
  • Tours & Group Visits
  • Visitor Guidelines

Exhibitions and Events Main Menu Block

  • Exhibitions
  • Events

Art and Design Main Menu Block

  • The Collection
  • Projects & Publications
  • Past Exhibitions

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Give
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Image

Previous 1 / 1 Next

Joseph Stella

Study of a Male Wood Duck, early 1900s

Description

Maker

  • Joseph Stella, 1877-1946, American

Title

Study of a Male Wood Duck

Year

early 1900s

Medium

Colored pencil on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • colored pencil

Supports

  • Glossy heavy machine made wove Bristol weight cardboard (with acidic core?)

Dimensions

18.1 x 26 cm (7 1/8 x 10 5/16 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of Mr. Robert Aron

Object Number

81.233

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Works in Process

July 31, 2021 - January 23, 2022

Birds are the focus of these studies in graphite and ink. Each composition, whether a preparatory sketch or an investigative study, is carefully articulated, revealing the artist’s varied interests and intentions.

Using colored pencils, Joseph Stella meticulously rendered the subject of his study, a wood duck, capturing its feathery texture with layered, repetitive lines. Despite the softness conveyed, Stella also leans into a pronounced angularity, perhaps a hint at his cubist predilections. In contrast, the monochromatic sketches are composed of rapidly executed lines that reveal the artists’ planning processes as they each created a foundational work for a painting or print. [see also 2020.46.26 and 84.230.5].

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Study of a Male Wood Duck with the accession number of 81.233. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

Feedback

We view our online collection as a living documents, and our records are frequently revised and enhanced. If you have additional information or have spotted an error, please send feedback to curatorial@risd.edu.

RISD Museum

  •  Facebook
  •  Twitter
  •  Instagram
  •  Vimeo
  •  Pinterest
  •  SoundCloud

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Give
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Footer Secondary

  • Image Request
  • Press Office
  • Rent the Museum
  • Terms of Use