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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1967.79.412
People
Stuart Davis, American (Philadelphia, PA 1892 - 1964 New York, NY)
Title
Study for “The Mellow Pad”
Classification
Archival Material
Work Type
drawing
Date
1947
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/7429

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on tan wove paper
Dimensions
27.8 x 21.4 cm (10 15/16 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
1967.79.412
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Index 2 January 1947 (b). For index reference, see Finding Aid [nrs.hvrd.art/urn-3:HUAM:art00006]. See related oil The Mellow Pad, 1945-51 (Davis Catalogue Raisonné‚ no. 1661).

Publication History

  • John R. Lane, "Stuart Davis and the Issue of Content in New York School Painting", Arts Magazine (February 1978), 52, no. 6, p. 155, fig. 2
  • John R. Lane, Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1978), cat. no. 76, repr. p. 150
  • Lowery Stokes Sims, Stuart Davis: American Painter, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1991), fig. 60
  • 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. 3, p. 360, repr. p. 358

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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