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Untitled (Black and White Variation on Windshield Mirror) Stuart Davis (1892-1964)
- DATE
- c. 1954-64
- MEDIUM
- Casein on canvas
- DIMENSIONS
- H- 54 x W- 76 in. (137.2 x 193 cm)
- COUNTRY OF BIRTH
- United States
- CREDIT LINE
- The Vilcek Foundation
- ACCESSION NUMBER
- VF2008.12.01
- COPYRIGHT INFO
- © Estate of Stuart Davis/VAGA, New York
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PROVENANCE
- The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY];
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];
The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, 2005-2008;
Gift to The Vilcek Foundation, 2008;
- The Artist;
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REFERENCES
- Kelder, Diane. Stuart Davis. New York: Praeger, 1971, ill. n.p., no. 37, as Study for Windshield Mirror.
Raynor, Vivian. "Art: 'Drawn' Paintings in Stuart Davis Show," New York Times, November 22, 1985, C26.
Camper, Fred. "Essentials of Seeing," Chicago Reader, January 15, 1993.
MacMillan, Kyle. "Exhibit Draws on 2nd Facet of Artist," Denver Post, July 5, 2002, section FF, p. 4, as Untitled (Variation on Windshield Mirror).
Boyajian, Ani and Mark Rutkoski eds. Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, vol. 3, pp. 412-413, color ill. p. 413 cat. no. 1694.
Smith, Jerry N. “Auto-America: The Automobile and American Art, circa 1900-1950,” PhD Dissertation, University of Kansas, 2012, p. 166, 200, fig. 5.50.
Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 19, 204-205, 264, ill. pp. 205-207.
Watts Jr., James D. "Modern masterworks: Philbrook exhibit brings American masters to Tulsa," Tulsa World, February 12, 2015.
- Kelder, Diane. Stuart Davis. New York: Praeger, 1971, ill. n.p., no. 37, as Study for Windshield Mirror.
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EXHIBITIONS
- New York. Lawrence Rubin. Stuart Davis: Major Drawings on Canvas and Paper from 1928 to 1964. January 30-February 27, 1971, cat. no. 15.
New York. Salander O'Reilly Galleries. Stuart Davis: Black and White. November 6-December 28, 1985, ill. np., cat. no. 2.
Chicago. Terra Museum of American Art. The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity (December 12, 1992-February 7, 1993); Middlebury, Vermont. Middlebury College Museum of Art (March 30-May 2, 1993); San Antonio, Texas. Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum (May 23-July 18, 1993); Miami, Florida. Center for the Fine Arts (August 7-September 19, 1993); Andover, Massachusetts. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy (October 17-December 30, 1993); Omaha, Nebraska. Joslyn Art Museum (February 12-April 10, 1994); Washington, D.C. The Phillips Collection (May-July 1994); cat. no. 87, p. 28, ill. p. 127.
Koriyama, Japan. Koriyama City Museum of Art. Stuart Davis Retrospective (July 8-August 6, 1995); Shiga, Japan. Shiga Museum of Modern Art (August 12-October 1, 1995); Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum (October 10-November 26, 1995); pp. 115, 164, ill. p. 115, cat. no. 73.
New York. Salander O'Reilly Galleries. From Corot to Poons: 19th and 20th Century Gallery Selections. April 29-May 17, 1997 (checklist).
Santa Fe. Gerald Peters Gallery. The Black and Whites of Stuart Davis. June 14-July 22, 2002, (pamphlet) color ill. n.p. cover (detail).
Tulsa. Philbrook Museum of Art. Long-term loan, 2011-2013.
Tulsa. Philbrook Museum of Art. Opening Abstraction. June 14, 2013-June 29, 2014.
Tulsa. Philbrook Museum of Art. From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (February 8-May 3, 2015); Phoenix. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).
St. Petersburg, Florida. Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. Long-term loan, August 2016-August 2018.
- New York. Lawrence Rubin. Stuart Davis: Major Drawings on Canvas and Paper from 1928 to 1964. January 30-February 27, 1971, cat. no. 15.
