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Still Life with Dial

A cubist still life featuring a cup and saucer, stack of magazines, and jug on an upturned table top.
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

2003.02.01

Copyright

© Estate of Stuart Davis/VAGA, New York

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A cubist still life featuring a cup and saucer, stack of magazines, and jug on an upturned table top.

The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY];
Private Collection, 2000;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY];
Halsey Minor, California;
[Christie’s New York. December 5, 2002, lot 203];
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, no. 25, 26, 27 or 28, as Still Life no. 1, 2, 3, or 4.

Brooklyn. Brooklyn Museum. Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory (January 21-March 19,1978); Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fogg Art Museum (April 15-May 28, 1978); pp. 98-99, 204, ill. p. 98, cat. no. 9.

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

Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Rahr-West Museum. Stuart Davis: The Formative Years, 1910-1930 (March 31-May 8, 1983); Chicago. Terra Museum of American Art (May 14-June 17, 1983); St. Paul, Minnesota. Minnesota Museum of Art. (July 3-September 25, 1983); ill. np., cat. no. 17.

New York. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. Stuart Davis: The Breakthrough Years. November 4-December 26, 1987, ill. pl. 11, cat. no. 13.

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. 46, 160-163, 177, ill. p. 161, pl. 44, cat. no. 45.

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

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, ill. p. 85, cat. no. 43.

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. 102-103, ill. p. 103, pl. 15.

New York. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. A Gallery’s Perspective: Modernist Painting and Sculpture: The Past 25 Years at Salander-O’Reilly. November 4, December 4, 2000, ill. np., cat. no. 2.

Huntington, New York. The Heckscher Museum of Art. Aaron Copeland’s America: A Cultural Perspective. November 4, 2000-January 21, 2001, p. 16, ill. p. 17.

New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. Picasso and American Art (September 28, 2007-January 28. 2007); San Francisco. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (February 25-May 28. 2007); Minneapolis. Walker Art Center (June 16-September 9, 2007); pp. 77, 81, 384, ill. p. 81, pl. 34.

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).

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, Frames 54-55, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Downtown Gallery Records, Artist Notebooks: Davis, Stuart undated, 1910-1970. Box 34, Reel 5568, Frame 439. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Borgenicht Gallery advertisement. Arts Magazine 53, (June 1979), ill. p. 46.

Borgenicht Gallery advertisement. Artforum 9 {i.e. 19} (September 1980), ill. p. 126.

Kramer, Hilton. “Art: Stuart Davis In His Pivotal Period,” New York Times, October 10, 1980, C24.

Kachur, Lewis. Stuart Davis,” Arts 55 (November 1980), p. 2.

Smith, Roberta. “Art: The Apprenticeship of Stuart Davis as a Cubist,” New York Times, November 27, 1987, C26, ill.

Wilkin, Karen. Stuart Davis. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987, pp. 78-79, 83, ill., p. 78, pl. 77.

Kramer, Hilton. “An American Cubist,” Arts and Antiques (January 1988), p. 94.

Wilkin, Karen. “Stuart Davis in his own time,” The New Criterion 6, no. 5 (January 1988), pp. 51-52 as Still Life with “The Dial.”

Kramer, Hilton. “Met Visits 20th Century; Does Modernism Justice,” New York Observer, December 2, 1991, pp. 1, 25.

Berman, Avis. “Art: American Cubist painting” Architectural Digest 52 (December 1995), ill. p. 137.

Hills, Patricia. Stuart Davis. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, pp. 54-55, 57, ill. p, 54, pl. 39.

Russell, John. “Art Review; Fanfare for Copland, A Fervent Adventurer,” New York Times, December 22, 2000.

Kelder, Diane. Stuart Davis: Art and Theory, 1920-31. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 2002, p. 5, ill. p. 5, fig. 6.

Private Collection. Christie’s, New York. Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. December 5, 2002, pp. 292-293, ill. p. 293, lot 203.

Weber, Bruce. Toward a New American Cubism. New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., 2006, pp. 12-13, ill. p. 12, fig. 1.

Boyajian, Ani and Mark Rutkoski eds. Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 63-65, 67, 131; vol. 3, pp. 110-111, ill. p. 111, cat. no. 1460.

Galligan, Gregory. “The Cube in the Kaleidoscope: The American Reception of French Cubism, 1918-1938,” (PhD dissertation, New York University, 2007), pp. xxvi, 300, ill. pl. 100.
Christ, J.X. “Stuart Davis and the Politics of Experience,” American Art 22, no. 2 (Summer 2008), p. 48, ill. p. 49, fig. 4.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 11, 17-18, 182-183, 238, 263, ill. pp. 183, 184-185.

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. 96.

O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, p.60, ill. pp. 14, 55, 61, 62.

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

Agee, William C. Modern Art in America: 1908-68. London: Phaidon, 2016, p. 138, ill. p. 139.

Cooper, Harry and Barbara Haskell. Stuart Davis: In Full Swing. New York: Prestel, 2016, ill. p. 161.

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