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Home > Art > Red Still Life

Red 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

2005.06.01

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

Iowa City. The New Gallery, Department of Art, University of Iowa. Vintage Moderns: Americans Pioneer Artists, 1903-1932, plus 4 related photographers. May 24-August 2, 1962, p. 10, cat. no. 7.

Waltham, Massachusetts. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. American Modernism: The First Wave: Painting from 1903 to 1933. A loan Exhibition of the Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Brandeis University. October 4-November 10, 1963, np., cat. no. 3.

Chapel Hill. The Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina. Fifty Years of American Art, 1903-1953. February 11-March 10, 1968.

New York. Grace Borgenicht Gallery. Stuart Davis: Still Life Paintings, 1922/24. September 27-October 23, 1980, ill. on cover of catalogue.

New York. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. Stuart Davis: The Breakthrough Years, 1922-1924. November 4-December 26, 1987, ill. np., cat. no. 10.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Stuart Davis, American Painter. (November 23, 1991-February 16, 1992); San Francisco. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (March 26-June 7, 1992); pp. 160, 162-163, ill. p. 162, cat. no. 45.

Vienna. Galerie Ulysses. Stuart Davis (October 19-November 7, 1992); New York. Ulysses Gallery (November 18-30, 1992); ill. np.

New York. Associated American Artists. Modern Masters. Modern Masters: Paintings and Works on Paper. September 9-October 16, 1993, ill. np., cat. no. 20.

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. 85, 86, 163, 165, ill. p. 86, cat. no. 44 (not exhibited in Koriyama).

Venice. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Stuart Davis (June 7-October 5, 1997); Rome. Palazzo delle Esposizioni (October 22, 1997-January 12, 1998); Amsterdam. Stedelijk Museum (February 1-April 19, 1998); Washington D.C.. National Museum of American Art (May 22-September 7, 1998); pp. 104-105, ill. p. 105, cat. no. 16.

Roslyn Harbor, New York. Nassau County Museum of Art. Reflections of Opulence: Art Nouveau to Art Deco. May 13-August 5, 2001, pp. 45, 75, ill. p. 45.

New York. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. Twentieth Century Selections. November 1-24, 2001. New York. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. Gallery Selections. December 2, 2003-January 3, 2004.

Tulsa. 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. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).

Washington DC. National Gallery of Art. Stuart Davis: In Full Swing. November 20, 2016-March 5, 2017, pp. 37-38, 241, ill. p. 37, fig. 10.

Davis, Stuart. Stuart Davis (autobiography). New York: American Artists Group, 1945, ill. np.

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 50. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Downtown Gallery Records, Artist Notebooks: Davis, Stuart undated, 1910-1970. Box 34, Reel 5568, Frames 440-441. 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.

Wilkin, Karen and Lewis Kachur. The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity. New York: The American Federation of the Arts in association with Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1993, pp. 17-18, ill. p. 18, fig. 5.

Wilson, William R. Stuart Davis’s Abstract Argot. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1993, p. ix, ill. pl. 5.

Boyajian, Ani and Mark Rutkoski eds. Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, vol. 1, p. 63-64; vol. 3, p. 112, ill. p. 112, cat. no. 1461.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 11, 17-18, 182, 187, 238, 263, ill. p. 187.

O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, p. 60, ill. p. 61.

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

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