Images(2)

Night Dock

Artist Stuart Davis (American, 1892 - 1964)

Date1953

MediumGouache on paper

DimensionsOverall: 11-15/16 x 14-5/16 inches (30.3 x 36.4 cm), sight: 9 x 10-7/8 inches (22.9 x 27.6 cm), conservation mat: frame: 17-5/8 x 19-1/2 x 3/4 inches (44.8 x 45.9 x 1.7 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.53

Collections

American

ClassificationsPainting

Object NameWatercolor

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

More Information

Signedbottom right: STUART DAVIS

Exhibition HistoryAn American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005 Summits II: Outstanding American Paintings, 1828–1985, Kennedy Galleries, New York, April 18–May 9, 1987 Stuart Davis, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 30–May 19, 1957; Des Moines Art Center, June 9–30, 1957; San Francisco Museum of Art, August 6–September 8, 1957; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 25–November 17, 1957 Art Gems for Christmas, The Downtown Gallery, New York, December 8–31, 1953ProvenanceThe artist The Downtown Gallery, New York Mrs. B. Franklin [Ethel Love] Mechling, Philadelphia, 1955 Mrs. Donald Dodge, Bronxville, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island Private collection, Connecticut Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York Howard Farber, New York, 1981 Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1987 from Kennedy Galleries, New York Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 72 (fig. 15), 73, 75n31, 180 (ill., color), 181. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, ed., American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), 114. Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, eds., Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, 3 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 1:113, 2:669–70 (ill., color, no. 1275). An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 13 (no. 24). Summits II: Outstanding American Paintings 1828–1985 (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1987), n.p. (ill., color, no. 18). Stuart Davis (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1957), 48 (no. 31).