Composition

1964

Stuart Davis

Associated Names
Stuart Davis

Artist, American, 1892 - 1964

Ives-Sillman

Printer, 1966 - 1992

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Publisher

The image displays bold and irregular shapes and lines in black, red, green, white, and yellow. The arrangement of colors and forms creates connections to familiar objects like a checkerboard and stylized figures. Some shapes resemble elongated limbs or fingers reaching outwards, while others suggest abstract writing or signatures.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color screenprint on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.9 x 35.9 cm (11 x 14 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 50.8 x 62.6 cm (20 x 24 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1975.100.3.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cole 1976a, no. 27

  • Portfolio Title

    X + X

Associated Artworks

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The image displays a collection of geometric shapes and lines in shades of yellow forming an abstract pattern. A large circle is surrounded by smaller shapes including plus signs and arrows. The background consists of crosshatched lines creating a textured surface resembling a digital aesthetic. The arrangement evokes common symbols found in technology interfaces.

Untitled

George Ortman, Ives-Sillman, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

1964

The image displays two large blue X shapes at the top and bottom of the canvas, with a small white plus sign in the center. The composition has an abstract quality, resembling mathematical symbols. The arrangement of the X's may suggest direction or multiplication, while the plus sign indicates addition.

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

The image shows a composition of vertical and horizontal stripes in blue and yellow colors with a diagonal line dividing the canvas into two triangles. The upper part has vertical stripes and the lower part has horizontal stripes.

Untitled (Rabat)

Frank Stella, Ives-Sillman, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

1964

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Madison, Connecticut; acquired 1975 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1976

  • Cole, Sylvan. The Prints of Stuart Davis. New York: Associated American Artists, 1976, no. 27.

Inscriptions

lower left in image: Any / as / Given; lower center in image (vertical): Stuart Davis

Markings

embossed lower right: [Ives-Sillman]

Wikidata ID

Q65577965

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