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Home > Art > Brown Still Life

Brown 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

2005.06.02

Copyright

© Estate of Stuart Davis/VAGA, New York

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The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY];
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];

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

New York, NY. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. Stuart Davis: The Breakthrough Years, 1922-1924. November 4-December 26, 1987, no. 12 as Still Life (Brown).

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. 160, 163, 164,165, ill. p. 162 no. 46 as Still Life (Brown).

Charleston, WV. Sunrise Museum [now The Clay Center’s Avampato Discovery Museum]. Cross Currents: Stuart Davis and His Contemporaries. January 12-March 12, 1995 (checklist), as Still Life (Brown).

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); p. 85, color ill. p. 87 no. 45 as Still Life (Brown).

New York, NY. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. Gallery Selections. December 2, 2003-January 3, 2004 (checklist) as Still Life (Brown).

Santa Fe, NM. Gerald Peters Gallery. Objects of Desire: Modern American Still Life Painting. June 28-July 24, 2004.

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).

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 51. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Downtown Gallery Records, Artist Notebooks: Davis, Stuart undated, 1910-1970. Box 34, Reel 5568, Frames 442-443. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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

Kramer, Hilton. “An American Cubist (exhibition review),” Art & Antiques (January 1988), p. 94.

Salander O’Reilly Advertisement, ARTnews 89, (March 1990), 20.

Reproduced on Salander O’Reilly card announcing Stuart Davis: Scapes, March 2-31, 1991; The Stuart Davis Catalogue Raisonné; The Stuart Davis Centennial and the Metropolitan exhibition, 1991-1992.

Rylands, Philip, ed. Stuart Davis. New York: Bullfinch Press (Little, Brown) and the Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997, p. 104.

Boyajian, Ani and Mark Rutkoski eds. Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 63-64; vol. 3, pp. 113-114, ill. p. 113, cat. no. 1462.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 11, 17-18, 182, 186, 238, 263, ill. p. 186.

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. 94.

O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, p. 60, ill. pp. 59, 60.

Watts Jr., James D. “Modern masterworks: Philbrook exhibit brings American masters to Tulsa,” Tulsa World, February 12, 2015.

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