First Light

Joseph Stella · c. 1928

This is First Light — a painting by Joseph Stella, around nineteen twenty-eight. Stella was part of the Precisionism movement. Oil on canvas — about 41 by 41 centimeters. You can pick out the tree.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 16 1/4 x 16 1/4" (41.3 x 41.3 cm) · Credit Elizabeth Bliss Parkinson Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 509: Buoy, Maine, The Fountains

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: The Back (IV), The Storm Tree, Cypress Root and Succulents, Point Lobos, The Park, The Cave