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Two Figures and El
193119 11/16 x 25 7/8 in. (50 x 65.7 cm)
Stuart Davis
United States (Philadelphia, PA, 1894 - 1964, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Lithograph
Credit Line:
Artists in the Kitchen Fund
Accession Number:
1975.142
Location: Not currently on view
Edition: 12/25
"Some of the things that have made me want to paint... are: skyscraper architecture… fast travel by train, auto, and aeroplane which brought new and multiple perspectives…"
-Stuart Davis, 1954
Stuart Davis was so inspired by the visual discontinuity and fragmentation of the urban environment that he developed a unique, modern visual lexicon to capture it. Without regard for perspective, scale, or the laws of gravity, Davis’s abstracted vision of two individuals waiting on the platform for an elevated train captures all the noise and energy of the scene.
[label text for Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
-Stuart Davis, 1954
Stuart Davis was so inspired by the visual discontinuity and fragmentation of the urban environment that he developed a unique, modern visual lexicon to capture it. Without regard for perspective, scale, or the laws of gravity, Davis’s abstracted vision of two individuals waiting on the platform for an elevated train captures all the noise and energy of the scene.
[label text for Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Masterpieces for Rochester: Acquisitions Since 1975 11/24/1978 - 1/7/1979
- From the Permanent Collection- The Working American Memorial Art Gallery 3/8/1980 - 4/6/1980
- John Sloan: Paintings, Prints, Drawings Hood Museum of Art 10/2/1981 - 1/2/1983
- Students of Robert Henri, 1890-1912 Memorial Art Gallery 10/4/1982 - 1/10/1983
- Survey of American Printmaking Memorial Art Gallery 5/2/1987 - 10/18/1987
- From Hassam to Hopper: Prints of New York City Memorial Art Gallery 2/3/1995 - 5/7/1995
- Modern Icon: The Machine as Subject in American Art Memorial Art Gallery 2/3/2012 - 5/6/2012
- 1940/2020: In Celebration of the 80th Anniversary of the Gallery Council of the Memorial Art Gallery 7/31/2020 - 10/11/2020
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Sandra Haller Olsen. A Survey of American Printmaking from the Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1987.
- Jane Myers, ed. Stuart Davis: Graphic Work and Related Paintings with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum
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