LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: StuartDavis

Artist: Stuart Davis (American, 1892–1964) Title: Arboretum by Flashbulb Date: 1942 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: H. 18, W. 36 inches (45.7 x 91.4 cm.) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection, Bequest of Edith Abrahamson Lowenthal, 1991 Accession Number: 1992.24.2 Description This composition embodies the syncopated rhythms of American jazz and the dynamism of modern life. Working with a limited palette of just five colors, plus black and white, the artist produced a tour-de-force of patterns, shapes, color combinations, and spatial ambiguities. Abstracted almost beyond recognition, the image is based on a garden, momentarily illuminated by the yellow-and-red light of a camera flash. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/modern...

Percolator Stuart Davis (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1892–1964 New York City) Date: 1927 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: H. 36, W. 29 inches (91.4 x 73.7 cm.) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1956 Accession Number: 56.195 Description: This painting deconstructs the rounded, cylindrical forms of an ordinary coffee pot into the Cubist language of flat, overlapping planes and wedges. It was one of the first times Davis used what he called "color-space logic"—placing colors in such a way as to suggest spatial relationships. The composition's diagonal lines and trapezoidal planes also enhance an illusion of three-dimensionality which turns this still life into an architectural setting. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/2100...