2015.124: The Tug Boat
PaintingsThe painting is framed in bright orange, it shows a black tug boat in the lower left corner facing right, a wavy line of smoke trails to the left, issuing from the smoke stack. A two masted white sailboat is to the right in the center. Immediately behind is a yellow-orange rectangle with the word Halibut in white letters outlined in black. Behind the rectangle is a square of light blue with darker blue dashes. The pointed steeple of a building is in the center. To the left of the steeple is a domed tower topped with a weathervane.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2015.124
- People
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Stuart Davis, American (Philadelphia, PA 1892 - 1964 New York, NY)
- Title
- The Tug Boat
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: The Tug Boat (Gloucester, Mass.)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1922
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/354058
Location
- Location
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Level 1, Room 1300, Modern and Contemporary Art, Early Modernism
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 40.6 cm (12 x 16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: On verso: Stuart Davis 1922
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- The artist; estate of the artist; [Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York]; [Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York], sold; to private collection (1980-2013); [Christie's New York, lot 49, December 2, 2008], bought in; sold; through [Christie's New York, lot 11, May 23, 2013]; [Michael Altman Fine Art, New York], partial gift, partial sale; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2015.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Boyajian and Rutkoski 1472
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund, Daniel A. Pollack Acquisition Fund, through the generosity of Tunie Hamlin Howe in memory of John S. Hamlen, Elizabeth and Richard Miller, Kathleen Hohlstein, Catherine Lastavica, Charles O. and Miriam M. Wood, Ann and John Clarkeson, Logan Delany, Michael Kempner and Victoria Greenleaf, and other friends of American Art, and partial gift of Michael N. Altman in honor of Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., founding curator of American Art
- Copyright
- © Estate of Stuart Davis / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 2015
- Object Number
- 2015.124
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/05/2016 - 10/19/2017; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/02/2023 - 01/01/2050
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Verification Level
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