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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1967.79.592
People
Stuart Davis, American (Philadelphia, PA 1892 - 1964 New York, NY)
After Mark Rothko, American (Dvinsk, Russia 1903 - 1970 New York, NY)
After William Baziotes, American (Pittsburgh, PA 1912 - 1963 New York, NY)
Title
Sketches of “Max,” Mark Rothko’s “No. 19,” and William Baziotes’ “Moonstruck”
Classification
Archival Material
Work Type
drawing
Date
1950
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/6514

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on cream wove paper
Dimensions
27.9 x 21.5 cm (11 x 8 7/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Stuart Davis
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Accession Year
1967
Object Number
1967.79.592
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Index 5 February 1950. For index reference, see Finding Aid [nrs.hvrd.art/urn-3:HUAM:art00006]. See related oil Max #1, 1949 (Davis Catalogue Raisonné‚ no. 1656); oil Max #2, 1949 (Davis Catalogue Raisonné‚ no. 1657); oil by Mark Rothko, No. 19, 1949, collection Art Institute of Chicago: Anonymous gift (1957.308); and oil by William Baziotes, Moonstruck, date unknown. The Baziotes and Rothko paintings are illustrated in Herbert Matter, "Fifty-three Living American Artists: Photographed by Herbert Matter in the Manner of the Seventeenth-Century Painter Teniers" Vogue 115, no. 2 (Feb. 1, 1950), pp. 152-54. Also illustrated in this article is Davis's oil Salt Shaker, 1931 (Davis Catalogue Raisonné‚ no. 1560). The Baziotes painting was identified by Emily A. Schuchardt.

Publication History

  • John R. Lane, Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1978), cat. no. 83, repr. p. 158
  • Patricia Hills, Stuart Davis, exh. cat., National Museum of American Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1996), fig. 109
  • 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. 1, fig. 15, p. 95

Exhibition History

  • 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

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