
Art Institute of Chicago
Saw
Stuart Davis · 1923
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; estate of the artist [Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico, Fiesta Exhibition, Sept. 3–17, 1923.
- New York, Borgenicht Gallery, Stuart Davis, Still Life paintings, 1922/24, Sept. 27–Oct. 23, 1980.
- New York, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, Selections: Stuart davis Exhibition, Oct. 3–25, 1986, checklist, no. 8.
- New York, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, Stuart Davis: The Breakthrough Years, Nov. 4–Dec. 26, 1987, cat. 21, as The Saw.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stuart Davis, American Painter, Nov. 23, 1991–Feb. 16, 1992; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Mar. 26–June 7, 1992, cat. 51, as The Saw.
Literature
Published references
- Lewis Kachur, "Stuart Davis," Arts Magazine 55, 3 (November 1980) p. 2.
- Hilton Kramer, "An American Cubist," Art & Antiques (January 1988) p. 94.
- 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), cat. 42.
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