About the Object
In this painting, a single leafless tree stands in the center of a cubist landscape constructed of planes of color that Davis textured with line and recall the squares of a quilt. This tree appears in Davis’s landscapes throughout the 1920s, including Garden Scene (2004.01.01) and Sword Plant (From the Shore) (2005.01.01), both 1921, in the Collection.
Additional Information
Davis revisited and reinvented this composition 25 years later in two paintings—Pad #1 (Honolulu Museum of Art) and Pad #2 (private collection)—illustrating what Davis called the “amazing continuity” of his art. Throughout his career, he would mine his earlier art as his ideas about and his theories on painting evolved.
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