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Materials:
watercolor and pencil on paper
Size Notes:
38.1 x 28
Description:
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Markings:
signed Stuart Davis and dated 1912 (lower center)
Exhibited:
New York, Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Infantry,International Exhibition of Modern Art, 1913, no. 814, n.p.(probably) New York, Sheridan Square Gallery,Watercolors and Drawings by Stuart Davis, 1917 (asThe Garbage Contractors Ball)Utica, New York, Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; New York, Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment,1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1963,1963, no. 814, p. 117 & 187, illustrated Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art,The Shock of Modernism in America: The Eight and Artists of the Armory Show, 1984, no. 113, p. 73
Literature:
(probably) W.G. Bowdoin, 'Modern Work of Stuart Davis at Village Show,'New York Evening World, 13 December 1917, n.p. (asThe Garbage Contractors Ball)'A Glorious Affair,'Time , vol.81, no. 14, 5 April 1963, p. 59, illustratedMilton W. Brown,The Story of the Armory Show,New York, 1988, no. 814, p. 260Lowery Stokes,Stuart Davis, American Painter,New York, 1991, p. 124Ani Boyajian & Mark Rutkoski, eds.,Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonn, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, no. 987, p. 476, illustrated
Provenance:
Estate of the aboveGrace Borgenicht Gallery, New YorkAcquired from the above in 1980 by the present owner