Around Town June 15
Joseph Stella, Flowers, Italy, ca. 1930, oil on canvas, 74 3/4 x 74 3/4 in. Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Marshall, 1964.20. Digital image © Phoenix Art Museum. All rights reserved. Photo by Ken Howie.
• The next exhibit at the Brandywine River Museum of Art opens this weekend. Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature opens June 17 and runs through Sept. 24. Stella is considered a pioneering modernist in American art and is recognized primarily for his dynamic Futurist-inspired paintings of New York, in particular Coney Island and the Brooklyn Bridge. Through these majestic works—which emerged beginning in 1913—Stella established his reputation…