Seventy-nine years ago today, on November 5, 1946 (October 12, 1946 in the lunar calendar), artist Joseph Stella died. On November 5th, 1946, Joseph Stella, the artist who painted the biography of new york City, died. Stella was born in southern Italy in 1877 and came to America as a child. His work, Coney Island, the Battle of Light, the Day Before Lent (1914), as the title suggests, is brisk and seamless, as if you were there. A few years ago, Yale University got his masterpiece Brooklyn Bridge (1920), which glowed with futuristic luster, and its composition had a sense of perspective and three-dimension.