About This Artwork
Stuart Davis
American, 1892-1964
Fishing Equipment1931
Gouache, over touches of graphite, on cream wove paper
381 x 507 mm
Gift of Kate L. Brewster, 1950.120
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
The harbor and fishing industries in Gloucester, Massachusetts, attracted Stuart Davis’s attention, and he repeatedly depicted them, focusing particularly on Gloucester’s docks during the 1930s in works like Fishing Equipment. This drawing shows Davis’s linear style and his use of mainly primary colors along with black and white, both of which were typical of his work at the time.