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Detail Study #1 for "Package Deal"

A work made of gouache with graphite on off-white wove paper.

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  • A work made of gouache with graphite on off-white wove paper.

Date:

1956

Artist:

Stuart Davis
American, 1892-1964

About this artwork

Although he studied with the quintessential early 20th-century American painter Robert Henri, Stuart Davis was profoundly influenced by European abstract art, especially the flattened planes of Cubist art that he saw at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. Later Davis also used the solid forms of signage and advertising to evoke the tempo of jazz and urban street life, as in this drawing. Made as a commission for Fortune magazine in 1956, Package Deal is a series of works in which Davis reinterpreted the traditional theme of still life.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Stuart Davis

Title

Detail Study #1 for "Package Deal"

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1956

Medium

Gouache with graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

41.1 × 33.1 cm (16 3/16 × 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Leo S. Guthman

Reference Number

2003.270

Extended information about this artwork

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