Stuart Davis

American, 1892 - 1964

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Stuart Davis, Ives-Sillman, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Composition, 1964, color screenprint on wove paper, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, 1975.100.3.6

Composition

Stuart Davis, Ives-Sillman, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art · 1964 · color screenprint on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1975.100.3.6

Various Artists, George Ortman, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Stuart Davis, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Poons, Robert Indiana, Ad Reinhardt, Ives-Sillman, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, X + X, 1964, portfolio of ten screenprints, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, 1975.100.3.1-10

X + X

Various Artists, George Ortman, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Stuart Davis, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Poons, Robert Indiana, Ad Reinhardt, Ives-Sillman, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art · 1964 · portfolio of ten screenprints ·  Accession ID  1975.100.3.1-10

Stuart Davis, Ives-Sillman, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Composition, 1964, color screenprint on wove paper, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.297.6

Composition

Stuart Davis, Ives-Sillman, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art · 1964 · color screenprint on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2008.115.297.6

Andy Warhol, Stuart Davis, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Poons, Robert Indiana, Ad Reinhardt, Ives-Sillman, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Various Artists, George Ortman, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell, X + X, 1964, portfolio of ten screenprints, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.297.1-10

X + X

Andy Warhol, Stuart Davis, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Poons, Robert Indiana, Ad Reinhardt, Ives-Sillman, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Various Artists, George Ortman, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell · 1964 · portfolio of ten screenprints ·  Accession ID  2008.115.297.1-10

Stuart Davis, Ivy League, 1953, screenprint, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.1403

Ivy League

Stuart Davis · 1953 · screenprint ·  Accession ID  2008.115.1403

Stuart Davis, Bass Rocks, 1941, screenprint, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.1401

Bass Rocks

Stuart Davis · 1941 · screenprint ·  Accession ID  2008.115.1401

Vividly colored, curved and straight-edged geometric shapes are piled and layered against a background of chalk white in this horizontal abstract composition. The paint is applied thickly with visible brush strokes. The shapes that fill the canvas are painted in flat areas of canary and buttercup yellow, cobalt blue, beet and brick red, pumpkin orange, kelly green, white, or black. Three vertical, cinnamon-brown bands are spaced along a sky-blue square, which nearly spans the left half of the composition. The tall brown forms can be read as masts while some of the other shapes can be the water, sails, rigging, anchors, and the forms of ships.
Stuart Davis, Study for "Swing Landscape", 1937-1938, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase and exchange through a gift given in memory of Edith Gregor Halpert by the Halpert Foundation and the William A. Clark Fund), 2014.79.15

Study for "Swing Landscape"

Stuart Davis · 1937-1938 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.79.15

Stuart Davis, Barber Shop Chord, 1931, lithograph, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.51

Barber Shop Chord

Stuart Davis · 1931 · lithograph ·  Accession ID  2008.115.51

Stuart Davis, Two Figures and El, 1931, lithograph in black on wove paper, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2002.157.11

Two Figures and El

Stuart Davis · 1931 · lithograph in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2002.157.11

Stuart Davis, Sixth Avenue El, 1931, lithograph in black on wove paper, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.52

Sixth Avenue El

Stuart Davis · 1931 · lithograph in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2008.115.52

Bibliography

1987

  • Wilkin, Karen. Stuart Davis. New York, 1987.

1991

  • Sims, Lowery Stokes, et al. Stuart Davis: American Painter. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1991.

1996

  • Hills, Patricia. Stuart Davis. New York, 1996.

1997

  • Rylands, Philip. Stuart Davis. Exh. cat. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Palazzo delle esposizione, Rome; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; National Museum of American Art, Washington, 1997-1998. Milan, 1997.

2002

  • Kelder, Diane. Stuart Davis: Art and Theory, 1920-1931. Exh. cat. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 2002.

2007

  • Boyajian, Ani, and Mark Rutkoski, eds. Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. 3 vols. Essays by William C. Agee and Karen Wilkin. New Haven and London, 2007.

2016

  • Cooper, Harry, and Barbara Haskell. Stuart Davis: In Full Swing. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, 2016-2018. Washington, 2016.