20th Century American Art Ed Christos M Joachimides Munich Prestel 1993

Landscape with Garage Lights

1931-1932
32 10 41 seven/8 in. (81.3 x 106.4 cm)

Stuart Davis
American (Philadelphia, PA, 1894 - 1964, New York, NY)

Object Type: Painting

Medium and Support: Oil on canvass

Credit Line: Marion Stratton Gould Fund

Accession Number: 1951.3

Location: Currently on view

Collection: Encyclopedia Britannica Drove

Stuart Davis began as a educatee of the Urban Realist manner, but upon seeing the many European modernist works on display at the New York Armory Bear witness of 1913, the creative person found his passion for abstraction. The influence of the cleaved-up and flattened surfaces of Cubism and the syncopated rhythms of American jazz contributed to Davis' personal style.
[Gallery label text, 2007]

Gloucester, one of Massachusetts's oldest seaports, was a summer home for painter Stuart Davis from the time he was a beau of twenty-two. This view of the harbor clearly captivated him by the early 1930s, and preliminary studies of this painting reveal how carefully he considered the scene and translated it into paint, all the while deliberately conveying a sense of simplicity and speed in its execution.

Later a Parisian stay in the late 1920s, Davis returned to the United States with a new manner of seeing things. The goal for him was to paint an expressive, abstracted version of the world effectually him, rather than a photographic simulacrum. As modernism challenged the nature of reality and how it is perceived, Davis reminds us here that it is possible to run into 2 sides of a edifice at once, and that oft it really looks like merely half of a ship is in the h2o fifty-fifty though our brains convince us that the other one-half is hidden behind the fish warehouse. Flatness and simplification of forms were characteristics that distinguished work of influential European painters like Picasso and Matisse, whose work Davis would have encountered during his stay in France.

[Gallery label text, 2006]

Marks

Creative person's signature, lower right: Stuart Davis

Provenance

The artist; Downtown Gallery, New York, 1932; purchased by the Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting, Chicago, IL, 1944; purchased past Senator William Benton, CT, 1948; purchased by the Gallery in 1951

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Exhibition List

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

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• Stuart Davis: "The American Scene:" Recent Paintings: New York and Gloucester The Downtown Gallery iii/8/1932 - 3/21/1932
• Exhibition of American Painting of To-twenty-four hours 12/1/1933 - 1/xv/1934
• The Fourteenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings 6/viii/1934 - 7/8/1934
• The Forty-Quaternary Annual Exhibition of American Art 10/2/1937 - 11/7/1937
• Trois Siècles d'Fine art aux Etats-Unis Musée du Jeu de Paume five/1/1938 - 7/30/1938
• Americans at Home: 32 Painters and Sculptors The Downtown Gallery 10/four/1938 - 10/22/1938
• Contemporary Art San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition ii/18/1939 - 12/2/1939
• 25 Artistic American Painters two/1/1942 - 6/1/1942
• Fifty Years on 57th St. The Art Students League 2/vii/1943 - two/28/1943
• iii Contemporary Americans: Karl Zerbe, Stuart Davis, Ralston Crawford The Arts Club of Chicago two/1/1945 - ii/28/1945
• Contemporary American Painting Encyclopaedia Britannica 4/12/1945 - 7/30/1950
• Landscape 1/1/1949 - 1/31/1949
• Thirty Paintings 7/28/1949 - 11/20/1949
• New Accessions of American Painting from the Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection 1/nineteen/1951 - two/28/1951
• A Special Exhibtion of American and French Mod Masters Wildenstein Galleries 5/4/1955 - v/28/1955
• Painting in America: The Story of 450 Years The Detroit Establish of Arts four/23/1957 - 7/30/1957
• Summer Showroom of Permanent Collection 6/i/1959 - 8/31/1959
• Masters of Landscape: East and Westward Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute 9/fifteen/1963 - 12/1/1963
• Stuart Davis Memorial Exhibition, 1894-1964 Smithsonian Institution 5/28/1965 - 11/28/1965
• 20th Century Vision Memorial Art Gallery 1967-1968
• The City and the Motorcar: Their Influence on Art Between the 2 Globe Wars Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 10/6/1973 - 2/x/1974
• The Era of Brainchild Memorial Art Gallery 1/xix/1977 - 2/16/1977
• Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory The Brooklyn Museum one/21/1978 - five/28/1978
• Through the Looking Glass 12/half-dozen/1980 - one/25/1981
• Mod Art in Rochester vii/eighteen/1981 - 8/23/1981
• Stuart Davis. Provincetown and Gloucester: Paintings and Drawings 4/1/1986 - 4/26/1986
• Stuart Davis: American Painter The Metropolitan Museum of Fine art 11/18/1991 - six/vii/1992
• Stuart Davis: Retrospective 1995 Koriyama City Museum of Art seven/8/1995 - 11/26/1995
• A Looking Laboratory 6/2/1996 - vi/30/1999
• Stuart Davis Retrospective Peggy Guggenheim Drove 6/7/1997 - 9/7/1998
• Picturing Erstwhile New England: Paradigm and Memory 4/2/1999 - 8/22/1999
• Stuart Davis in Gloucester Greatcoat Ann Historical Clan six/5/1999 - 7/iii/2000
• In Total Swing: The Art of Stuart Davis 6/x/2016 - 1/1/2018
• Life is a Highway: American Car Cultyre 6/15/2019 - ix/15/2019

Bibliography

This object has the following bibliographic references:

• Commodity Writer: Keyes, Donald D.. Commodity Scope: Commodity and reproduction. Susan Contrivance Peters, ed. Memorial Fine art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Printing, 1988. Folio Number: 214-215
• Commodity Title: New Accessions of American Paintings. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: xvi, Issue Number: 3. Consequence Date: January-February 1951.
• Article Scope: Reproduction only. Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the Academy of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
• Article Scope: Reproduction but. Art Digest. New York, New York: Fine art Assimilate, Inc. Volume Number: xix, Issue Number: 14. Upshot Date: Apr 15, 1945.
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. South. Lane Faison, Jr.. Art Tours and Detours in New York State. New York, New York: Random House, 1964.
• Commodity Championship: Stuart Davis. Article Scope: Commodity and reproduction. Grace Pagano and Donald Bear. The Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting. Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1946. Effigy Number: 33
• Commodity Writer: Kelder, Diane. Article Title: Stuart Davis: Pragmatist of American Modernism. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Art Periodical. New York, New York: College Fine art Association of America Volume Number: 39, Issue Number: 1. Consequence Appointment: Autumn 1979. Page Number: 35
• Article Author: Rosenberg, Harold. Article Title: The Fine art World: The Last Exiles. Article Telescopic: Article and reproduction. The New Yorker. New York, New York: F. R. Pub. Corp. Volume Number: 54, Issue Number: 7. Outcome Date: April 3, 1978. Page Number: 108
• The Magazine Antiques. New York, NY: Direct Enterprises Inc.
• Article Author: May, Stephen. Article Title: Stuart Davis in Gloucester. Commodity Telescopic: Article and reproduction. Antiques and the Arts Weekly. Newtown, CT: The Bee Publishing Co., Inc. Issue Date: July fourteen, 2000. Page Number: 70, Figure Number: 68
• Article Title: Contrasts. Article Scope: Commodity and reproduction. American Artist. Stamford, CT: Watson-Guptill Publications Book Number: 10, Upshot Number: 4. Issue Engagement: April 1946. Page Number: 34-35, Figure Number: 35
• Apollo. London, England: Apollo
• Article Scope: Entry. Karen Wilkin. Stuart Davis in Gloucester. Due west Stockbridge, MA: Hard Printing, Inc., 1999.
• Robert Majestic, ed. Reinventing the American People: Unity and Variety Today. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995.
• Article Telescopic: Article and reproduction. Georges Boudaille and Patrick Javault. La Peinture Américaine. Paris, France: Nathan, 1992.
• Commodity Scope: Article and reproduction. Patricia Hills. Stuart Davis. New York, NY: Harry Northward. Abrams, Inc., 1996.
• Harper'southward Magazine. New York, NY: Harper's Magazine Foundation
• Article Scope: Commodity and reproduction. Philip Rylands, ed. Stuart Davis. Milan, Italy: Electa, 1997.
• International Herald Tribune. Paris, French republic: International Herald Tribune
• Article Author: Donahue, Susan. Article Scope: Entry. Susan Donahue and James Cahill. Masters of Landscape: East and West. Utica, NY: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963. Page Number: 79, Figure Number: 75
• Article Scope: Entry. H. H. Arnason. Stuart Davis Memorial Exhibition, 1894-1964. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1965.
• Article Championship: The City and the Machine: Their Influence on Art Between the Two World Wars. Article Scope: Entry. Pharos. St. Petersburg, FL: Museum of Fine Arts, St. petersburg Volume Number: XI, Event Number: ii. Effect Appointment: October 1973. Folio Number: 37-38, Figure Number: 28
• Article Scope: Entry. John R. Lane. Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 1978.
• Commodity Author: Keyes, Donald D.. Article Title: Stuart Davis: 'Snow on the Hills'. Article Telescopic: Commodity and reproduction. Bulletin - Georgia Museum of Art . Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Volume Number: 12, Consequence Number: 2. Issue Date: Winter 1987. Page Number: xi, 23n, 16, Figure Number: ix
• Article Author: Grad, Bonnie L.. Article Title: Stuart Davis and Contemporary Culture. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Artibus et Historiae: An Art Anthology. Vienna: IRSA Volume Number: XII, Event Number: 24. Issue Date: 1991. Page Number: 178,190n, 73, Figure Number: 9
• Article Scope: Reproduction but. Stuart Davis, (1892-1964): Motifs and Versions. New York, NY: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., 1988.
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. E.P. Richardson. Painting in America: The Story of 450 Years. New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1956.
• Harry T. Williams and Hazel C. Wolf. Our American Nation. Columus, OH: Charles E. Merrill Books, Inc., 1966.
• Article Scope: Reproduction simply. Rudi Blesh. Stuart Davis. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1960.
• Article Title: Garage Lights, by Stuart Davis, Contemporary American. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Rochester Review. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Printing Effect Date: November 1957. Page Number: 19, Figure Number: 19
• Olive L. Riley. Your Art Heritage. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Visitor, Inc., 1952.
• Article Scope: Reproduction only. Stuart Davis. Stuart Davis. New York, NY: American Artists Group, 1945.
• The Globe Volume Encyclopedia. Chicago, IL: Field Enterprises Educational Corp., 1968.
• Article Scope: Reproduction only. Karen Wilkin. Stuart Davis. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1987.
• Pamela J. Annas and Robert C. Rosen. Literature and Society: An Introduction to Fiction, Verse, Drama, Nonfiction. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990.
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Vincent Price. The Vincent Price Treasury of American Fine art. Waukesha, WI: Country Beautiful Corporation, 1972.
• Article Scope: Reproduction just. François Mathey. American Realism: A Pictorial Survey from the Early Eighteenth Century to the 1970's. Geneva: Éditions D'art Albert Skira, Southward.A., 1978.
• Irving F. Ahlquist. United States History. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1983.
• Article Author: Somma, Thomas. Commodity Title: Thomas Hart Benton and Stuart Davis: Abstraction vs. Realism in Amer. Scene Ptg.. Article Telescopic: Commodity and reproduction. The Rutgers Art Review. New Brunswick, NJ: Students of the Graduate Program in Fine art History at Rutgers University Volume Number: Five Outcome Engagement: Spring 1984. Page Number: 51, Figure Number: 4
• Article Author: Smith, Roberta. Commodity Title: Stuart Davis, Film-Builder. Commodity Telescopic: Article and reproduction. Fine art in America. New York, NY: Art in America Volume Number: 64, Effect Number: five. Consequence Date: September-October 1976. Page Number: 85
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Lowery Stokes Sims. Stuart Davis: American Painter. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.
• Article Scope: Entry. Trois Siècles d'Art aux Etats-Unis. Paris, France: Musée di Jeu de Paume, 1938.
• Article Scope: Entry. Contemporary Art: Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco 1939. San Francisco, CA: H.S. Crocker Company, Inc., Schwabacher-Frey Co., 1939.
• Commodity Title: Davis, Stuart. Article Scope: Entry. Harold Osborne, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art. Oxford, England: Oxford University Printing, 1981. Page Number: 148
• Commodity Scope: Article and reproduction. Christos Chiliad. Joachimides, ed. American Fine art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture, 1913-1993. Munich, Federal republic of germany: Prestel-Verlag, 1993.
• Article Scope: Entry. Stuart Davis Retrospective 1995. Osaka, Nippon: The Yorimuri Shimbun, Nippon Association of Fine art Museums, 1995.
• Wayne Craven. American Fine art: History and Culture. Madison, WI: Brownish and Benchmark Publishers, 1994.
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. William H. Truettner, ed. Picturing Quondam New England: Paradigm and Memory. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.
• Article Author: McBride, Henry. Article Championship: Attractions in the Galleries. Commodity Scope: Article and reproduction. The Lord's day. New York, NY Consequence Date: March 12, 1932. Figure Number: 6
• Stuart Davis, "The American Scene": Recent Paintings, New York and Gloucester. New York, NY: The Downtown Gallery, 1932.
• Article Scope: Entry. Exhibition of Painting To-day. Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 1933.
• Article Telescopic: Entry. The Xl-4th Annual Exhibition of American Art. Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1937.
• Commodity Title: Esquire's Art Found II. Article Telescopic: Article and reproduction. Esquire. New York, NY: Esquire Volume Number: 24, Consequence Number: 3. Issue Date: September 1945. Folio Number: 68-69, Figure Number: 68
• Article Title: Stuart Davis: 'All Art is Abstract'. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. USA: An American Review. U.Due south. Office of War Information Book Number: 2, Result Number: 7. Issue Appointment: 1945.
• Article Scope: Entry. Stuart Davis, Art and Art Theory: An Introduction. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 1978.
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Bridget Johnson, ed. Auto and Culture. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984.
• Article Writer: Perron, Joel. Commodity Championship: Jazzed Up Abstraction: Nippon's 1st Major Prove of Stuart Davis. Commodity Scope: Article and reproduction. The Daily Yomiuri. Japan Issue Date: October xx, 1995, sec. A. Page Number: sixteen, Figure Number: sixteen
• Article Author: McKendrick, Jamie. Article Title: Reality's Ouch: The Colorful Career of Stuart Davis. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Modernistic Painters. London, England Volume Number: eleven, Result Number: ane. Consequence Appointment: Spring 1998. Folio Number: 43, Figure Number: 42
• Article Scope: Entry. 50 Years on 57th Street. New York, NY: The Fine art Students League, 1943.
• Article Telescopic: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Fine art Gallery, 1988.
• Article Championship: 'A Looking Laboratory': Explore the Earth of Fine art in a New Interactive Centre. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. MAGazine. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery Effect Date: May-June 1996. Page Number: 4-v
• Oxford Fine art Journal. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press
• Wayne Craven. American Art: History and Culture. Boston, MA: McGraw Colina, 2003.
• Commodity Scope: Reproduction only. David Rosand. The Invention of Painting in America. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2004.
• Article Writer: Wilkin, Karen. Commodity Title: Stuart Davis: Landscape with Garage Lights. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Fine art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 225-225
• Ani Boyajian, ed. Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
• Henry Ferrini and Ken Riaf. Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Identify .
• Article Writer: Christ, John Ten.. Article Title: Stuart Davis and the Politics of Experience. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. American Art. Chicago, IL: Academy of Chicago Printing, 1991-. Volume Number: 22, Issue Number: 2. Issue Engagement: Summer 2008. Page Number: 56, Effigy Number: 13
• Article Writer: Henderson, Linda Dalrymple. Article Championship: Einstein and 20th Century Art: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Peter Galison, ed. Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Scientific discipline, Art, and Modern Civilization. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Printing Page Number: 119-120, Effigy Number: 8.12 p. 119
• Article Scope: Reproduction but. Harry Cooper and Barbara Haskell. Stuart Davis: In Total Swing. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, Wash., 2016.
• Commodity Scope: Mention and reproduction. Marjorie Searl and Lu Harper. The Memorial Art Gallery: 100 Years. Rochester, NY: Memorial Fine art Gallery, 2013.
• Commodity Scope: Mention and reproduction. Robin Reisenfeld. Life is a Highway: Art and American Machine Culture. Toledo, OH: Toledo Museum of Art, 2019.

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