Rue des Rats, No. 2
Date
1928
Artist
Stuart Davis, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1892–1964
Provenance
Downtown Gallery, New York
Dr. Lazarus, New York
Harold Diamond, New York, to 1 November 1966
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1 November 1966-6 March 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History
DOWNTOWN GALLERY, New York. Hotels and Cafes: Stuart Davis, 21 January-10 February 1930, no. 9.
BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY, Albright Art Gallery, New York. Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, 27 April-16 June, no. 32.
RIVERSIDE MUSEUM, New York. "Best of Art," to 22 February 1948.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, p. 679, fig. 376.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art Building, Providence. "Graham, Gorky, Smith, and Davis in the Thirties," 30 April-22 May 1977, no. 27, pp. 27-28, ill. p. 27.
TERRA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Evanston, Illinois. "American Painting, 1880-1930," 29 July-30 September 1980, no. 21.
AMON CARTER MUSEUM, Fort Worth. "Stuart Davis: Graphic Work and Related Paintings," 29 August-26 October 1986, no. 21, fig. 5b, p. 35.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York. "Stuart Davis: American Painter," 23 November 1991-15 February 1992, no. 78, p. 192, pp. 54, 197-98. Tour: SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 26 March-7 June.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION, Washington, DC. "Americans in Paris: Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder," 27 April-18 August 1996, p. 170, ill. p. 128.
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION, Venice. "Stuart Davis," 7 June-5 October 1997, colorplate p. 127, no. 27 p. 126. Tour: PALAZZO DELLE ESPOSIZIONI, Rome, 22 October-12 January 1998; STEDLIJK MUSEUM, Amsterdam, 1 February-19 April; NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Washington, DC, 22 May-7 September.
NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART AT SUNY, Purchase, New York. "American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning and their Circle, 1927-1942," 29 January-28 April 2012. TOUR: AMON CARTER MUSEUM, Fort Worth, 9 June-19 August; ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 21 September-30 December.
Published References
ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART,SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, DC. The Downtown Gallery Papers, Stuart Davis File, microfilm roll no. ND29, frame 120.
UNSIGNED. Art Digest (1 March 1930): ill. p. 6.
DAVIS, STUART. "The Cube Root," Art News, 41 (1 February 1943): 33-34.
LUCAS, JOHN. "The Fine Art Jive of Stuart Davis," Arts, 31 (September 1957): 34.
GOOSSEN, EUGENE C. Stuart Davis (New York: Georger Braziller, 1959): p. 23, ill. 26.
LERNER, ABRAM, ed. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974): p. 679, fig. 376.
PARK, EDWARDS. Treasures from the Smithsonian (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983): ill.
WILKIN, KAREN. Stuart Davis (New York: Abbeville Press, 1987): 115, 116, 120, 134, plate 119.
TURNER, ELIZABETH HUTTON. American Artists in Paris: 1919-1929 (Ann Arbor and London: UMI Research Press, 1988): fig. 20.
WILKIN, KAREN. "Art: Stuart Davis in His Own Time," The New Criterion (January 1988): 54.
LOVE, RICHARD H. Carl W. Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester to Rockport. (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1999): fig. 68-2, p. 616.
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School
American Abstraction (Mid-Century)
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
72.88
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil and sand on canvas
Dimensions
20 x 29 in. (50.7 x 73.8 cm)
