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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1967.79.95
People
Stuart Davis, American (Philadelphia, PA 1892 - 1964 New York, NY)
Title
Color Diagram for “Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors—7th Avenue Style”
Classification
Archival Material
Work Type
drawing
Date
1940
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/16458

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and colored crayon on tan wove paper
Dimensions
21.4 x 27.9 cm (8 7/16 x 11 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Stuart Davis
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Accession Year
1967
Object Number
1967.79.95
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Index 1 July 1940 (b). For index reference, see Finding Aid [nrs.hvrd.art/urn-3:HUAM:art00006]. See related oil Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors-7th Avenue Style, 1940 (Davis Catalogue Raisonné‚ no. 1634).

Publication History

  • John R. Lane, Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1978), cat. no. 54, repr. p. 44
  • Cécile Whiting, Antifascism in American Art, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 1989), p. 89, fig. 44
  • David Bindman, Suzanne Blier, and Vera Grant, ed., Art of Jazz: Form, Performance, Notes, exh. cat., Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 51, ill. (color)

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