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Artist:
Stuart Davis, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1892–1964  Search this
Medium:
Oil on paperboard
Dimensions:
18 × 24 in. (45.6 × 60.9 cm)
Type:
Painting
Date:
1924
Provenance:
Charles Allen Winter, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Alice Beach Winter (Mrs. Charles Winter)
Estate of Alice Beach Winter, from 16 March 1968
Mrs. Walter Ekblaw (from estate of her aunt, Alice Beach Winter), to 1969
Henri Gallery, Washington, DC, 1969
Stephen Mazoh, New York, from 1969
Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
Forum Gallery, New York, to 18 December 1974
Museum Purchase, 1974
Exhibition History:
LOWE ART MUSEUM, University of Miami. "In Search of the Present: The American Prophets," 22 February-25 March 1973, no. 101, cover ill.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Acquisitions: 1974-1977," 25 March-24 July 1977, unnumbered checklist.
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Downtown Branch at Federal Hall National Monument, New York. "The Comic Art Show: Cartoons in Painting and Popular Culture," 13 July-31 August 1983, ill. p. 56.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture," 3 October 1990-15 January 1991, figs. 27, 111, pp. 168, 294, 296. Tour: ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, 20 February-12 May; LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 21 June-15 September.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York. "Stuart Davis: American Painter," 23 November 1991-15 February 1992, no. 57, p. 174, pp. 172, 174, 189, 220. Tour: SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 26 March-7 June.
MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU, Berlin. "American Art in the 20th Century," 8 May-25 July 1993, colorpl. 50 (German and English catalogues). Tour: ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, London, 16 September-12 December (with separate gallery guide).
NEUE NATIONALGALERIE, Berlin. "George Grosz: Berlin/New York," 21 December 1994-17 April 1995, no. 111.6, ill., p. 111.
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "Picasso and American Art," 28 September 2006-28 January 2007. Tour: SAN FRANCISCO MUSUEM OF MODERN ART, 25 February-28 May; WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 17 June-9 September.
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART. "The Art of American Still Life: Audubon to Warhol," 27 October 2015-10 January 2016, colorpl. 127, pp. 256-257.
MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBEC. "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 9 June-5 September 2022, color ill. p. 108.
Published References:
LAWRENCE, SIDNEY. "Hirshhorn Opens New Acquisitions Exhibition," The Torch (March 1977): 8.
The American Vision, A Smithsonian Calendar for 1978 (New York: Universal Books, 1977): colorplate for April and back cover.
KACHUR, LEWIS. "Stuart Davis and Bob Brown: The Masses to the Paris Bit," Arts Magazine v. 57 no. 2 (October 1982): 72, fig. 4.
RUSSELL, JOHN. "Art: A show of Comics at Downtown Whitney," The New York Times (12 August 1983): C21.
DEITCHER, DAVID. "Comic Connoisseurs," Art in America v. 72 no. 2 (February 1984): 101, ill.
WEBER, BRUCE. Stuart Davis' New York (West Palm Beach, Florida: Norton Galelry & School of Art, 1985): n. 45, p. 23.
STICH, SIDRA. Made in U.S.A. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987): fig. 87, p. 89.
WILKIN, KAREN. Stuart Davis (New York: Abbeville Press, 1987): plate 11, p. 15, pp. 91, 212-13.
WAGSTAFF, SHEENA, et al. Comic Iconoclasm (London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1987): ill. p.?
BARTON, BRUCE and JAMES CRAIG. Thirty Centuries of Graphic Design (New York: Watson-Guptill, 1989): fig. 6, p. 141.
MCSHINE, KYNASTON, ed. Andy Warhol: A Retrospective (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1989): fig. 14, p. 34.
GODDARD, DONALD. American Painting (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1990): ill.
ZABEL, BARBARA. "Stuart Davi's Appropriation of Advertising: The Tobacco Series, 1921-1924," American Art, vol. 5, no. 4 (Fall 1991): ill.10, and detail, p. 64-66.
MARTIN, JENNIFER, et al. L'Art des Estats-Unis (Citadelles & Mazenod, 1992): fig. 581, p. 562, 615.
WILSON, WILLIAM. Stuart Davis's Abstract Argot (San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1993): n.p., colorplate 6.
GREENBERG, JAN and SANDRA JORDAN. The American Eye: Eleven Artists of the Twentieth Century (Delacorte Press, c. 1994): fig. 22, p. 43.
BOGART, MICHELE H. Advertising, Artists, and the Borders of Art (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995): fig. 56, p. 232.
APGAR, GARRY, SHAUN O'L. HIGGINS, and COLLEEN STRIEGEL. The Newspaper in Art (New Media Ventures, 1996): fig. 77, p. 50, p. 203.
HILLS, PATRICIA. Stuart Davis (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1996): ill. 4, p. 12.
MCALLISTER, JANE, ed. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art (New York: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution in association with Harry. N. Abrams, 1996): colorplate p. 41.
ROSENBLUM, ROBERT. On Modern American Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999): fig. 136, p. 231.
ZILCZER, JUDITH. "Beyond Genealogy: American Modernism in Retrospect," American Art (Spring 2001): fig. 4, p. 7.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 1, p. 30.
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Museum purchase, 1974
Accession Number:
74.228
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School:
American Abstraction (Mid-Century)
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