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(Composition)

(Composition)

1939

Stuart Davis

American, 1894-1964

Gouache on heavy weight wove paper
11 × 15 3/8 in. (39.1 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Theodosia Young in memory of her mother, Zoe Dusanne
72.44
Provenance: The artist; [Zoe Dusanne (1884-1972), Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, Washington, May 1, 1944-1972; erroneously dated 1946]; bequeathed to her daughter, Theodosia Young (1909-1999), Seattle, Washington; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1972
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryVancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, The Seattle Art Museum Lends, Mar. 13 - Apr. 11, 1976. No cat. no. (erroneously dated 1946).

Seattle, Washington, Modern Art Pavilion, Seattle Art Museum, Tribute to Zoe Dusanne, Mar. 24 - May 8, 1977. No cat. no. (erroneously dated 1946).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, New York Abstractions, 1940s and 1950s, Oct.13 - Nov. 27, 1983

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, International Abstraction: Making Painting Real, May 2, 2003 - Feb. 29, 2004. No catalogue.

New York, Whitney Museum of Art, In Full Swing: The Art of Stuart Davis, June 10 - Sept. 25, 2016 (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Nov. 20, 2016 - Mar. 5, 2017; San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Apr. 8 - Aug. 6, 2017; Bentonville, Arkansas, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Sept. 16, 2017 - Jan. 8, 2018). Cat. no. 43, pp. 103, 238, reproduced pl. 43.
Published Referencescf. Cole, Sylvan and Jane Myers. Stuart Davis: Graphic Work and Related Paintings with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1986; cat. no. 20, pp. 64-65 (for related works).

Boyajian, Ani and Mark Rutkowski, eds. Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, 3 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007; vol. 2, pp. 640-642, no. 1244, reproduced.

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