An assignment to create a series of drawings of a West Virginia mining disaster, and other industrial life, was a catalyst for his interest in cities, and the way industry affected people’s lives. The arrival of steel and electricity, and the pathos of steelworkers, shaped his response to the noise, speed and dynamism of the new modern world. An immigrant from Italy, Stella became one of the U.S.’s foremost modernist painters.
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