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Home > Art > Blue Still Life

Blue Still Life

Artist

Stuart Davis

Date

1922

Medium

Oil on canvas

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 50 x W- 32 in. (127 x 81.3 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

2015.03.01

Copyright

© Estate of Stuart Davis/VAGA, New York

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The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY];
[Daniel B. Grossman Gallery, New York, NY, January 18, 1985];
Private Collection, La Jolla, CA;
[Christie’s New York, May 25, 1989, lot 376 (unsold)];
[Daniel B. Grossman Gallery, New York, NY];
Michael and Fiona Scharf, New York, NY, 1989-2015;
[Jonathan Boos, New York, NY];

New York, NY. Whitney Studio Club. Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Stuart Davis. December 8-22, 1926, no. 25, 26, 27 or 28, as Still Life No. 1, 2, 3, or 4.

New York, NY. The Downtown Gallery. Group Exhibition. November 11-December 1, 1962, (checklist).

Washington, D.C.  The Corcoran Gallery of Art. The New Tradition: Modern Americans before 1940. April 27-June 2, 1963, no. 20.

New York, NY. The American Federation of Arts Gallery, Brandeis University Creative Arts Awards. October 22-November 5, 1963.

New York, NY. The Downtown Gallery. Supplement to Rattner Exhibition. March 3-28, 1964 (checklist).

Memphis, TN. The Memphis Academy of Arts. Paintings by Stuart Davis, Arthur G. Dove, Yasuao Kunioshi, John Marin, George L.K. Morris, Georgia O’Keeffe, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Max Weber: Lent by the Downtown Gallery. November 1964 (announcement card).

Washington, D.C. National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution. Stuart Davis Memorial Exhibition (May 28-July 5, 1965); Chicago, IL. Art Institute of Chicago (July 30-August 29, 1965); New York, NY. Whitney Museum of American Art (September 14-October 17, 1965); Los Angeles, CA. The Art Galleries, University of California at Los Angeles (October 31-November 1965), no. 19.

New York, NY. Borgenicht Gallery. Stuart Davis: Still Life Paintings, 1922/24. September 27-October 23, 1980.

Andover, MA. Addison Gallery of American Art. Phillips Academy.  Andover Alumni Collectors. April 29-July 30, 1995 [back label].

Downtown Gallery Records, Artist Notebooks: Davis, Stuart undated, 1910-1970. Box 34, Reel 5568, Frames 446-447. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Photograph and Documentation related to the compiling of records by the American Art Research Council, December 1945. Whitney Museum Papers. Artists Files: Stuart Davis. Reel N652, Frame 53, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Stevens, Elisabeth. “Big, Bouncy Show Is a Memorial to Davis,” Washington Post, May 30, 1965.

Benedikt, Michael.  “New York Letters: Stuart Davis, 1984-1964,” Art International 9, no. 8, (November 20, 1965), 44.

Lane, John R. Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1978, p. 99.

Agee, William C. Stuart Davis: The Breakthrough Years, 1922-1924. New York: Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, 1987, n.p.

Boyajian, Ani and Mark Rutkoski eds. Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, cat. no. 1463.

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