About the Object
In this cubist landscape, the leafless tree featured in Tree, 1921, appears on the left-hand side, its form balanced by the curve of a snake-like form on the right. In the upper-right a Coliseum-like structure stands out among the planes of color that Davis textured with line.
Additional Information
In 1942, Davis revisited several 1921 paintings, rethinking the compositions and the relationships between color and structure. He reworked Garden Scene first in a sketchbook for a new painting, which he initially called Arboretum #2, ultimately titling it Ursine Park, 1942, (present location unknown). Throughout his career, he would mine his earlier art as his ideas about and his theories on painting evolved illustrating what Davis called the “amazing continuity” of his art.
The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
Earl Davis, New York, NY;
[Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, NY];
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];
Probably: New York, NY. Whitney Studio Club. Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Stuart Davis. December 8-22, 1926, np., no. 21.
New York, NY. Grace Borgenicht Gallery. Stuart Davis: Provincetown and Gloucester: paintings and drawings. April 1-26, 1986, np., ill., no. 21.
New York, NY. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. Stuart Davis, Scapes: An exhibition of landscapes, cityscapes, and seascapes made between 1910 and 1923. March 2-31, 1990, p. 126, ill. np., cat. no. 47.
New York, NY. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Stuart Davis, American Painter (November 23, 1991-February 16, 1992); San Francisco, CA. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (March 26-June 7, 1992); pp. 46, 48-49, 154-156, 159, 298, ill. p. 155, cat. no. 37.
Koriyama, Japan. Koriyama City Museum of Art. Stuart Davis Retrospective (July 8-August 6, 1995); Shiga, Japan. Shiga Museum of Modern Art (August 12-October 1, 1995); Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum (October 10-November 26, 1995); pp. 76, 163, ill. p. 76, cat. no. 34.
Venice, Italy. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Stuart Davis (June 7-October 5, 1997); Rome. Palazzo delle Esposizioni (October 22, 1997-January 12, 1998); Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Stedelijk Museum (February 1-April 19, 1998); Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art (May 22-September 7, 1998); pp. 94-95, ill. p. 95, cat. no. 11.
Santa Fe, NM. Gerald Peters Gallery. Visions of Landscape: Stuart Davis’ Early Years (1910-1923). November 20-December 28, 1998, no. 16, pamphlet and checklist.
Gloucester, MA. Cape Ann Historical Museum. Stuart Davis in Gloucester (June 5-November 27, 1999); Wilmington, DE. Delaware Art Museum (January 21-March 19, 2000); New York, NY. National Academy of Design (May 3-July 30, 2000); pp. 55, 121, ill. p. 55, pl. 26.
New York, NY. Whitney Museum of American Art. Picasso and American Art (September 28, 2007-January 28. 2007); San Francisco, CA. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (February 25-May 28. 2007); Minneapolis, MN. Walker Art Center (June 16-September 9, 2007); pp. 73, 76, 384, ill. p. 76, pl. 30.
Tulsa, OK. Philbrook Museum of Art. From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (February 8-May 3, 2015); Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe, NM. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).
Santa Fe, NM. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Extended loan. January-April 2016.
Wilkin, Karen. Stuart Davis. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987, pp. 79, 81, ill. p. 81, pl. 80.
Kramer, Hilton. “Art by 2 Americans with ‘Artistic Concerns,’” New York Observer 4, no. 13 (April 2, 1990), p. 23.
Glueck, Grace. “To a Quaint Fishing Port Came a Jazzy City Boy, Lured by the Light,” New York Times (June 16, 2000), section E, p. 32.
Boyajian, Ani and Mark Rutkoski eds. Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, vol. 1, p. 63; vol. 3, pp. 106-107, ill. p. 107, cat. no. 1456.
Galligan, Gregory. “The Cube in the Kaleidoscope: The American Reception of French Cubism, 1918-1938,” (PhD dissertation, New York University, 2007), pp. xxv, 402, ill. pl. 87.
Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 17, 176, 178, 238, 263, ill. p. 178.
Pochoda, Elizabeth. “Freedom and the abstract truth: Jan and Marica Vilcek’s collection of American modernist art,” The Magazine Antiques (May/June 2013), ill. p. 102.
O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, ill. p. 62.
