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Materials:
ink, crayon and pencil on paper
Size Notes:
58.4 x 88.9 cm
Description:
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Markings:
signed 'Stuart Davis'
Exhibited:
(Probably) New York, The Downtown Gallery, Practical Manifestations in American Art, December 13-31, 1934 (as Ink Drawing for Mural in Smoking Room, Radio City Music Hall). , (Probably) New York, The Downtown Gallery, 1935 (as Ink Drawing for Mural in Smoking Room, Radio City Music Hall). , New York, Lawrence Rubin, Stuart Davis: Major Drawings on Canvas and Paper from 1928 to 1964, January 30-March 1, 1971, no. 11 (as Study for Radio City Music Hall). , New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Stuart Davis: Murals: An Exhibition of Related Studies, 1932-1957, January 27-February 14, 1976, no. 4 (as Study for a Mural). , New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 20th-Century American Art from Friends' Collections, July 27-September 27, 1977. , Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art; Middlebury, Vermont, Middlebury College Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum; Miami, Florida, Center for the Fine Arts; Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity, December 12, 1992-July 1994, pp. 20, 97, no. 58 (as Study for Radio City Mural [Men Without Women])., New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York Collects: Drawings and Watercolors, 1900-1950, May 20-August 29, 1999, pp. 254-55, no. 112, illustrated (as Presentation Drawing for Radio City Music Hall Mural [Men Without Women])., New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Master Drawings New York, January 24-March 9, 2013.
Literature:
A. Boyajian, M. Rutkowski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonn, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, pp. 271-72, no. 561, illustrated., D. D'Arcy, 'The Art Show: When Contemporary Art is Uninspiring, Dealers Turn to History,' Observer, March 2, 2017, illustrated. , 'The 2017 ADAA Art Show,' Maine Antique Digest, March 5, 2017, illustrated. , 'Art: Stuart Davis...America's Jazz Painter,' Arts & Food, January 10, 2018, illustrated.
Provenance:
The artist. , Estate of the above. , Lawrence Rubin, New York., Private collection, New York, acquired from the above, 1971., James Reinish & Associates, Inc., New York., Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2017.