Pad No. 4
Stuart Davis
American Art
On View:
Pad No. 4 is one of a series of four related pictures that Stuart Davis made while working on The Mellow Pad, a painting in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. In all of these works, the word pad appears—here, sideways in green at the upper left (and a 4 is in white at the lower right).
This title reveals the artist’s fondness for wordplay: pad refers both to an artist’s sketchbook and to the jazz slang term for “home.” A lifelong aficionado of jazz, Davis regularly drew analogies between the visual patterns of his pictures and the syncopated rhythms of this modern form of American music.
This title reveals the artist’s fondness for wordplay: pad refers both to an artist’s sketchbook and to the jazz slang term for “home.” A lifelong aficionado of jazz, Davis regularly drew analogies between the visual patterns of his pictures and the syncopated rhythms of this modern form of American music.
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas
DATES
1947
DIMENSIONS
14 × 18 in. (35.6 × 45.7 cm)
frame: 21 1/4 × 25 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (54 × 64.1 × 3.2 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower center: "Stuart Davis"
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
1992.11.5
CREDIT LINE
Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Stuart Davis (American, 1892–1964). Pad No. 4, 1947. Oil on canvas, 14 × 18 in. (35.6 × 45.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal, 1992.11.5 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1992.11.5_SL1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 1992.11.5_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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