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A painting of a tug boat and other objects in bright colors with an orange border.

The 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
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
Level 1, Room 1300, Modern and Contemporary Art, Early Modernism
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
30.5 x 40.6 cm (12 x 16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • 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
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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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