About the Object
This gouache study is for a rug that Davis designed in 1942. The full sheet reveals Davis testing out various shades of green before arriving at the shade of mint he would use in the gouache. Signed and dated 2/1/42, Davis wrote in the margin: “The 3 dim’l position/ in Color – Space / The particular memory / of the shape – color – texture”
Additional Information
The Harvard Art Museums have two studies for Flying Carpet in their collection and the Museum of Modern Art has Flying Carpet, 1942, one of the finished rugs in its collection.
The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2010-2023;
Boston, MA. Beth Urdang Fine Art. Stuart Davis: The “Flying Carpet” and Related Studies accompanied by Gouaches, Prints, Drawings of the ’20s and ’30s. April 28-June 2, 1990 (checklist), cat. no. 13.
Boyajian, Ani and Mark Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, vol. 2, p. 660, ill. p. 660, cat. no. 1264.
Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 212-213, 264, ill. p. 213.
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