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Landscape with Clay Pipe
Stuart Davis
American Art
Vivid color and the lively interaction of abstracted forms convey a raucous mood in this small landscape. The work was created during a transitional period in Stuart Davis's art when he turned from a relatively restrained Cubist aesthetic to one more closely aligned with decorative impulses. The clay pipe, gas station, and barber pole reprise the principal elements of his 1932 mural for the Radio City Music Hall Men's Lounge at Rockefeller Center, originally entitled Men without Women. Here, however, the symbols of masculine activity register with a colorful vitality that fulfills Davis's aims for an art that was truly American in its outlook.
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas
DATES
1941
DIMENSIONS
12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Frame: 15 3/4 x 21 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (40 x 55.2 x 4.4 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower right: "Stuart Davis"
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
1992.11.4
CREDIT LINE
Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Stuart Davis (American, 1892–1964). Landscape with Clay Pipe, 1941. Oil on canvas, 12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal, 1992.11.4. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1992.11.4_SL1.jpg)
IMAGE
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