Artist's signature, lower right: Stuart Davis

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

Artist's signature, lower right: Stuart Davis

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This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Stuart Davis: "The American Scene:" Recent Paintings: New York and Gloucester The Downtown Gallery 3/8/1932 - 3/21/1932
• Exhibition of American Painting of To-day 12/1/1933 - 1/15/1934
• The Fourteenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings 6/8/1934 - 7/8/1934
• The Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Art 10/2/1937 - 11/7/1937
• Trois Siècles d'Art aux Etats-Unis Musée du Jeu de Paume 5/1/1938 - 7/30/1938
• Americans at Home: 32 Painters and Sculptors The Downtown Gallery 10/4/1938 - 10/22/1938
• Contemporary Art San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition 2/18/1939 - 12/2/1939
• 25 Creative American Painters 2/1/1942 - 6/1/1942
• Fifty Years on 57th St. The Art Students League 2/7/1943 - 2/28/1943
• 3 Contemporary Americans: Karl Zerbe, Stuart Davis, Ralston Crawford The Arts Club of Chicago 2/1/1945 - 2/28/1945
• 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 1/19/1951 - 2/28/1951
• A Special Exhibtion of American and French Modern Masters Wildenstein Galleries 5/4/1955 - 5/28/1955
• Painting in America: The Story of 450 Years The Detroit Institute of Arts 4/23/1957 - 7/30/1957
• Summer Exhibit of Permanent Collection 6/1/1959 - 8/31/1959
• Masters of Landscape: East and West Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute 9/15/1963 - 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 Machine: Their Influence on Art Between the Two World Wars Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 10/6/1973 - 2/10/1974
• The Era of Abstraction Memorial Art Gallery 1/19/1977 - 2/16/1977
• Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory The Brooklyn Museum 1/21/1978 - 5/28/1978
• Through the Looking Glass 12/6/1980 - 1/25/1981
• Modern Art in Rochester 7/18/1981 - 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 Art 11/18/1991 - 6/7/1992
• Stuart Davis: Retrospective 1995 Koriyama City Museum of Art 7/8/1995 - 11/26/1995
• A Looking Laboratory 6/2/1996 - 6/30/1999
• Stuart Davis Retrospective Peggy Guggenheim Collection 6/7/1997 - 9/7/1998
• Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory 4/2/1999 - 8/22/1999
• Stuart Davis in Gloucester Cape Ann Historical Association 6/5/1999 - 7/3/2000
• In Full Swing: The Art of Stuart Davis 6/10/2016 - 1/1/2018
• Life is a Highway: American Car Cultyre 6/15/2019 - 9/15/2019

This object has the following bibliographic references:

• Article Author: Keyes, Donald D.. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988. Page Number: 214-215
• Article 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: 16, Issue Number: 3. Issue Date: January-February 1951.
• Article Scope: Reproduction only. Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
• Article Scope: Reproduction only. Art Digest. New York, New York: Art Digest, Inc. Volume Number: 19, Issue Number: 14. Issue Date: April 15, 1945.
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. S. Lane Faison, Jr.. Art Tours and Detours in New York State. New York, New York: Random House, 1964.
• Article Title: Stuart Davis. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Grace Pagano and Donald Bear. The Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting. Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1946. Figure Number: 33
• Article Author: Kelder, Diane. Article Title: Stuart Davis: Pragmatist of American Modernism. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Art Journal. New York, New York: College Art Association of America Volume Number: 39, Issue Number: 1. Issue Date: Fall 1979. Page Number: 35
• Article Author: Rosenberg, Harold. Article Title: The Art World: The Last Exiles. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. The New Yorker. New York, New York: F. R. Pub. Corp. Volume Number: 54, Issue Number: 7. Issue Date: April 3, 1978. Page Number: 108
• The Magazine Antiques. New York, NY: Straight Enterprises Inc.
• Article Author: May, Stephen. Article Title: Stuart Davis in Gloucester. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Antiques and the Arts Weekly. Newtown, CT: The Bee Publishing Co., Inc. Issue Date: July 14, 2000. Page Number: 70, Figure Number: 68
• Article Title: Contrasts. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. American Artist. Stamford, CT: Watson-Guptill Publications Volume Number: 10, Issue Number: 4. Issue Date: April 1946. Page Number: 34-35, Figure Number: 35
• Apollo. London, England: Apollo
• Article Scope: Entry. Karen Wilkin. Stuart Davis in Gloucester. West Stockbridge, MA: Hard Press, Inc., 1999.
• Robert Royal, ed. Reinventing the American People: Unity and Diversity Today. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995.
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Georges Boudaille and Patrick Javault. La Peinture Américaine. Paris, France: Nathan, 1992.
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Patricia Hills. Stuart Davis. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996.
• Harper's Magazine. New York, NY: Harper's Magazine Foundation
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Philip Rylands, ed. Stuart Davis. Milan, Italy: Electa, 1997.
• International Herald Tribune. Paris, France: 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 Title: 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, Issue Number: 2. Issue Date: October 1973. Page Number: 37-38, Figure Number: 28
• Article Scope: Entry. John R. Lane. Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 1978.
• Article Author: Keyes, Donald D.. Article Title: Stuart Davis: 'Snow on the Hills'. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Bulletin - Georgia Museum of Art . Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Volume Number: 12, Issue Number: 2. Issue Date: Winter 1987. Page Number: 11, 23n, 16, Figure Number: 9
• 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, Issue Number: 24. Issue Date: 1991. Page Number: 178,190n, 73, Figure Number: 9
• Article Scope: Reproduction only. 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 only. 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 Press Issue Date: November 1957. Page Number: 19, Figure Number: 19
• Olive L. Riley. Your Art Heritage. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1952.
• Article Scope: Reproduction only. Stuart Davis. Stuart Davis. New York, NY: American Artists Group, 1945.
• The World Book 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, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990.
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Vincent Price. The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art. Waukesha, WI: Country Beautiful Corporation, 1972.
• Article Scope: Reproduction only. François Mathey. American Realism: A Pictorial Survey from the Early Eighteenth Century to the 1970's. Geneva: Éditions D'art Albert Skira, S.A., 1978.
• Irving F. Ahlquist. United States History. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1983.
• Article Author: Somma, Thomas. Article Title: Thomas Hart Benton and Stuart Davis: Abstraction vs. Realism in Amer. Scene Ptg.. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. The Rutgers Art Review. New Brunswick, NJ: Students of the Graduate Program in Art History at Rutgers University Volume Number: V Issue Date: Spring 1984. Page Number: 51, Figure Number: 4
• Article Author: Smith, Roberta. Article Title: Stuart Davis, Picture-Builder. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Art in America. New York, NY: Art in America Volume Number: 64, Issue Number: 5. Issue 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.
• Article Title: Davis, Stuart. Article Scope: Entry. Harold Osborne, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1981. Page Number: 148
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Christos M. Joachimides, ed. American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture, 1913-1993. Munich, Germany: Prestel-Verlag, 1993.
• Article Scope: Entry. Stuart Davis Retrospective 1995. Osaka, Japan: The Yorimuri Shimbun, Japan Association of Art Museums, 1995.
• Wayne Craven. American Art: History and Culture. Madison, WI: Brown and Benchmark Publishers, 1994.
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. William H. Truettner, ed. Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.
• Article Author: McBride, Henry. Article Title: Attractions in the Galleries. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. The Sun. New York, NY Issue 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 Scope: Entry. The Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Art. Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1937.
• Article Title: Esquire's Art Institute II. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Esquire. New York, NY: Esquire Volume Number: 24, Issue Number: 3. Issue Date: September 1945. Page Number: 68-69, Figure Number: 68
• Article Title: Stuart Davis: 'All Art is Abstract'. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. USA: An American Review. U.S. Office of War Information Volume Number: 2, Issue Number: 7. Issue Date: 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. Automobile and Culture. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984.
• Article Author: Perron, Joel. Article Title: Jazzed Up Abstraction: Japan's 1st Major Show of Stuart Davis. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. The Daily Yomiuri. Japan Issue Date: October 20, 1995, sec. A. Page Number: 16, Figure Number: 16
• Article Author: McKendrick, Jamie. Article Title: Reality's Ouch: The Colorful Career of Stuart Davis. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Modern Painters. London, England Volume Number: 11, Issue Number: 1. Issue Date: Spring 1998. Page Number: 43, Figure Number: 42
• Article Scope: Entry. Fifty Years on 57th Street. New York, NY: The Art Students League, 1943.
• Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
• Article Title: 'A Looking Laboratory': Explore the World of Art in a New Interactive Center. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. MAGazine. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery Issue Date: May-June 1996. Page Number: 4-5
• Oxford Art Journal. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press
• Wayne Craven. American Art: History and Culture. Boston, MA: McGraw Hill, 2003.
• Article Scope: Reproduction only. David Rosand. The Invention of Painting in America. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2004.
• Article Author: Wilkin, Karen. Article 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 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 Place .
• Article Author: Christ, John X.. Article Title: Stuart Davis and the Politics of Experience. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. American Art. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991-. Volume Number: 22, Issue Number: 2. Issue Date: Summer 2008. Page Number: 56, Figure Number: 13
• Article Author: Henderson, Linda Dalrymple. Article Title: 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 Science, Art, and Modern Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press Page Number: 119-120, Figure Number: 8.12 p. 119
• Article Scope: Reproduction only. Harry Cooper and Barbara Haskell. Stuart Davis: In Full Swing. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, Wash., 2016.
• Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Marjorie Searl and Lu Harper. The Memorial Art Gallery: 100 Years. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2013.
• Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Robin Reisenfeld. Life is a Highway: Art and American Car Culture. Toledo, OH: Toledo Museum of Art, 2019.

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