About this artwork
In this painting, Stuart Davis presented the saw as a modern icon for the 20th century. It is one of a series of paintings of solitary objects he produced in the 1920s. Here the tool floats in a Cubist composition of flat, abstract planes. The elevation of mundane objects to artistic subjects appealed to modernists like Davis because it signaled a new means of working that was free of art historical associations.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 271
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Department
- Arts of the Americas
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Artist
- Stuart Davis
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Title
- Saw
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1923
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Medium
- Oil on canvas
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Inscriptions
- Signed l.r.: Stuart Davis 1923
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Dimensions
- 94 × 55.9 cm (37 × 22 in.)
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Credit Line
- Through prior gift of William Wrigley
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Reference Number
- 1988.144
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