1965.111: Davits

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.111

People

Stuart Davis, American (Philadelphia, PA 1892 - 1964 New York, NY)

Title

Davits

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1932

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308753

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

52.8 x 72.4 cm (20 13/16 x 28 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: DAVITS / 1932
• inscription: verso, graphite: [sketch of square] 4 / 4 / 4 1/2 / hinged
• exhibition label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: JURY ART EXHIBITION / LOS ANGELES COUNTY FAIR / POMONA, CALIF.
• gallery label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: No. 79 [two labels with same information]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[The Downtown Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), 1951, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Copyright

© Estate of Stuart Davis / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.111

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Pinholes at all corners.

Publication History

• Los Angeles County Fair Exhibition: Contemporary Drawing, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Fair (Pomona, 1950), no. 41
• Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1954), repr. p. 207
• E. C. Goossen, Stuart Davis, G. Braziller (New York, NY, 1959), p. 15, repr.
• Sidney Simon and Emily S. Rauh, 20th Century Master Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1963), no. 25, pl. 11
• Max Kozloff, "Notes on the Psychology of Modern Draftsmanship", Arts Magazine (February 1964), ill. p. 61
• Michel-Louis Cosnil, "Stuart Davis, Retrospective au Musée d'Art Moderne", Informations & Documents (March 1, 1966), no. 225, p. 44, repr. p. 43
• Stuart Davis, exh. cat., Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France, 1966), no. 20, repr.
• Roberta Smith, "Drawing Now (and Then)", Artforum (April 1976), XIV, p. 56, repr. p. 55
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1976), p. 325, fig. 287
• Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY, 1976), no. 65, repr.
• Graham, Gorky, Smith and Davis in the Thirties, exh. cat., David Winton Bell Gallery (Providence, RI, 1977), no. 33
• Kenneth Baker, "Stuart Davis, All American", Boston Phoenix (May 9, 1978), ill. p. 10
• John R. Lane, Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1978), cat. no. 21, repr.
• Peter Selz and Dore Ashton, 2 Jahrzehnte amerikanische Malerei, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, Germany, 1979), no. 109
• Daniel M. Mendelowitz and Duane A. Wakeham, Mendelowitz's Guide to Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1982), repr. p. 35
• Dynamic Impulse: The Drawings of Stuart Davis, exh. cat., Hollis Taggart Galleries (New York, 2007), p. 90
• William C. Agee and Karen Wilkin, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. Catalogue Entries 1324-1749, ed. Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, Yale University Art Gallery and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT, 2007), vol. 2, no. 548, repr.
• David Bindman, Suzanne Blier, and Vera Grant, ed., Art of Jazz: Form, Performance, Notes, exh. cat., Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 50, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

• Contemporary Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 01/30/1949 - 02/20/1949
• Los Angeles County Fair 1950 Exhibition: Contemporary Drawing, Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, 09/15/1950 - 10/01/1950
• Contemporary American Drawings, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 01/11/1956 - 02/26/1956
• 20th Century Master Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 11/06/1963 - 01/05/1964; University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Minneapolis, 02/03/1964 - 03/15/1964; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/06/1964 - 05/24/1964
• A Retrospective Exhibition of the Paintings of Stuart Davis, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 10/03/1964 - 11/08/1964
• Stuart Davis Memorial Exhibition, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 75116 Paris, 02/15/1966 - 03/14/1966; Amerika Haus Gallery, Berlin, 04/23/1966 - 05/21/1966; American Embassy Gallery, London, London, 06/07/1966 - 06/24/1966
• Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 01/23/1976 - 03/23/1976; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, 05/27/1976 - 07/11/1976; Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, 07/18/1976 - 08/29/1976
• Graham, Gorky, Smith and Davis in the 30s, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, 04/30/1977 - 05/22/1977
• Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 01/21/1978 - 03/19/1978; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/15/1978 - 05/28/1978
• 2 Jahrzehnte amerikanische Malerei, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 06/10/1979 - 08/12/1979; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 08/23/1979 - 10/28/1979; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Brussels, 11/10/1979 - 12/30/1979
• The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
• Art of Jazz: Form, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016

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