Boating Party
Boating Party
Artist
Stuart Davis
(1892 - 1964)
Date1912
MediumWatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions10 1/4 × 15 in. (26 × 38.1 cm)
Framed: 17 3/4 × 22 5/8 × 1 1/2 in.
Framed: 17 3/4 × 22 5/8 × 1 1/2 in.
ClassificationsWatercolor
Credit LinePromised Gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Signedl.r.: Stuart Davis. 1912.
On View
Not on viewIn this early stage of Davis's career, he displayed an affinity for the watercolor medium. His skill was recognized when five of his watercolors were included in the 1913 Armory Show. Featuring urban locations and crowded spaces, these darker and dense paintings were, in many ways, the opposite of Boating Party with its bright daylight, cool coastal colors, and natural, open spaces.
Davis would go on to become one of the early leaders of the Modernist movement in American Art, and a progenitor of Pop Art in the 1960s.
This work was an early acquisition for Ms. Walton, long before she had studied and become a devotee of the work of Davis.
Markingsrecto, on frame, l.c.: STUART DAVIS
verso, l.l.: Spanierman Gallery / 50 East 78 Street New York 10021 Tel (212) 879-7085 / ULTRA VIOLET FILTERING / PLEXIGLASS / DO NOT TAPE
verso, l.r.: Spanierman Gallery / 50 East 78 Street New York 10021 Tel (212) 879-7085 / Stuart Davis / Summer Boating / Watercolor and pencil on paper / 10 1/4 x 15 inches / Signed lower right: / Stuart Davis