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Home > Art > Garden Scene

Garden Scene

Artist

Stuart Davis

Date

1921

Medium

Oil on canvas

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 20 x W- 40 in. (50.8 x 101.6 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

2004.01.01

Copyright

© Estate of Stuart Davis/VAGA, New York

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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.

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