Landscape
Stuart Davis
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Stuart Davis (American, 1892–1964). Landscape, 1932 and 1935. Oil on canvas, canvas dims approx: 25 × 22 in. (63.5 × 55.9 cm) frame: 32 1/2 × 29 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (82.6 × 74.3 × 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lowenthal, 73.150. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Landscape
Date
1932 and 1935
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
canvas dims approx: 25 × 22 in. (63.5 × 55.9 cm) frame: 32 1/2 × 29 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (82.6 × 74.3 × 6.4 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower center: "Stuart Davis"
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lowenthal
Accession Number
73.150
Frequent Art Questions
Why is this piece is called "Landscape"?
Stuart Davis often made sketches of locations that he visited in New York or Paris or port towns in New England and later used them as sources for paintings.In the process, he would simplify the forms, making them more geometrical and taking away shading, perspective, and other traditional means of showing space on a flat surface... "abstracting" the image.I don't know the exact source for this one, but if you look closely... do you see forms and lines that could suggest ladders or the riggings of ships?
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