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Home > Art > Roses

Roses

Artist

Stuart Davis

Date

1927

Medium

gouache and graphite on paper

Watercolor

Object Type

Work on Paper

Dimensions

H- 13 1/4 x W- 13 in. (33.7 x 33 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2018.01.07

Copyright

© Estate of Stuart Davis/VAGA, New York

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Cubism still life
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The Artist;
E.J. Carlin, El Paso, TX, by May 7, 1940;
Private Collection;
[Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY];
Private Collection, New York, 1975;
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];

Probably: New York, NY. The Downtown Gallery. Spring Exhibition: Pictures Suggestive of the Season. April 13- May 9, 1927 (review) [title not mentioned].

New York, NY. Valentine (Dudensing) Gallery. Exhibition-Paintings and Watercolors: Glenn Coleman and Stuart Davis. April 23-May 12, 1928, cat. no. 12.

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).

M.P. “Review of Valentine show,” New Yorker, May 5, 1928. Clipping, Stuart Davis Papers, Reel N584, Frame 191. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Boyajian, Ani and Mark Rutkoski eds. Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 545-546, ill. p. 545, cat. no. 1110.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 194-195, 238, 264, ill. p. 195.

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