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Stuart Davis · 1955

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist; with Edith Halpert, Downtown Gallery, New York, 1955; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Oct. 13–Dec. 19, 1955, cat. 73.
Youngstown, Ohio, Butler Institute of American Art, Twenty–First Annual Midyear Show, July 1–Sept. 6, 1956, cat. 42.
New York City, Downtown Gallery, Stuart Davis: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, 1954–1956, Nov. 6–Dec. 1, 1956, cat. 7.
IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, June 10–16, 1957, no. 39.
Washington, DC, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute, Stuart Davis Memorial Exhibition, May 25–July 5, 1965, cat. 103; Art Institute of Chicago, July 30–Aug. 29, 1965; New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Sept. 14–Oct. 17, 1965; Art Galleries, Universtiy of California–Los Angeles, Oct. 31–Nov. 28, 1965.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Modern Series: Shatter Rupture Break, Feb. 15–May 3, 2015, no cat.
New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stuart Davis, American Painter, Nov. 23, 1991–Feb. 16, 1992, cat. 154; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Mar. 26–June 7, 1992.
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Stuart Davis, June 7–Oct. 5, 1997, cat. 51; Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Oct. 22, 1997–Jan. 12, 1998, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Feb. 1–Apr19, 1998, Washington, DC, National Museum of American Art, May 22–Sept. 7, 1998 (Washington, DC only).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, June 10–Sept. 25, 2016; Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, Nov. 20, 2016–Mar. 5, 2017; de Young, San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, Apr. 8–Aug. 6, 2017; Bentonville, Arkansas, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Sept. 16, 2017–Jan. 8, 2018 (New York and Washington DC only) cat. 63.

Literature

Published references

Katharine Kuh, "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists" (Harper & Row, 1962), 56–7 (ill.).
David Sylvester, ed. "Modern Art: From Fauvism to Abstract Expressionism" (Franklin Watts, 1965) p. 44 (ill.).
Michael Benedikt, "New York Letter: Stuart Davis, 1894–1964," Art International 9, 8 (November 20, 1965) p. 44.
The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth–Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 108 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 358–61, cat. 186 (ill.).
Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection, (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2017) p. 141.

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