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. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 73.150_SL1.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Landscape

Date

1932 and 1935

Medium

Oil on canvas

Classification

Painting

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

Rights

© artist or artist's estate

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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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