About the Object
This pencil drawing on graph paper is a study for Davis’s Mural (Radio City Men’s Lounge Mural: Men without Women), 1932, a commission for the men’s lounge at Radio City Music Hall. Imagery includes a gasoline pump, a pipe, a cigar, a sailboat, a drawing of a horse, an ace of hearts playing card, and a barber’s pole.
Additional Information
All of these elements appear in Mural (Radio City Men’s Lounge Mural: Men without Women), which also includes a pack of cigarettes and a car set against a cityscape. In 1974, the Radio City Music Hall Corporation gifted the mural to the Museum of Modern Art.
The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2006-2018;
New York, NY. Zabriskie Gallery. Stuart Davis: Murals: An Exhibition of Related Studies, 1932-1957. January 27-February 14, 1976, cat. no. 6.
New York, NY. Salander O’Reilly Galleries. Stuart Davis: Black and White. November 6-December 28, 1985, cat. no. 33 (supplementary checklist).
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. 135, 165, ill. p. 135, cat. no. 94.
Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix Art Museum. From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (June 5-September 6, 2015).
Boyajian, Ani and Mark Rutkoski eds. Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, vol. 2, p. 270, ill. p. 270, cat. no. 560.
Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 200-201, 239, 264, ill. p. 201.
