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Home > Art > Study for Radio City Music Hall

Study for Radio City Music Hall

Artist

Stuart Davis

Date

1932

Medium

Graphite on paper

Object Type

Work on Paper

Dimensions

H- 10 1/2 x W- 16 3/4 in. (26.7 x 42.5 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2018.01.06

Copyright

© Estate of Stuart Davis/VAGA, New York

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About the Object

This pencil drawing on graph paper is a study for Davis’s Mural (Radio City Men’s Lounge Mural: Men without Women), 1932, a commission for the men’s lounge at Radio City Music Hall. Imagery includes a gasoline pump, a pipe, a cigar, a sailboat, a drawing of a horse, an ace of hearts playing card, and a barber’s pole.

 

Additional Information

All of these elements appear in Mural (Radio City Men’s Lounge Mural: Men without Women), which also includes a pack of cigarettes and a car set against a cityscape. In 1974, the Radio City Music Hall Corporation gifted the mural to the Museum of Modern Art.

 

The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2006-2018;

New York, NY. Zabriskie Gallery. Stuart Davis: Murals: An Exhibition of Related Studies, 1932-1957. January 27-February 14, 1976, cat. no. 6.

New York, NY. Salander O’Reilly Galleries. Stuart Davis: Black and White. November 6-December 28, 1985, cat. no. 33 (supplementary checklist).

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. 135, 165, ill. p. 135, cat. no. 94.

Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix Art Museum.  From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (June 5-September 6, 2015).

Boyajian, Ani and Mark Rutkoski eds. Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, vol. 2, p. 270, ill. p. 270, cat. no. 560.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 200-201,  239, 264, ill. p. 201.

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