Stuart Davis (1892–1964)

STUART DAVIS (1892–1964)
Untitled (Greek Backwards), 1921
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 23 1/2 x 18 in.
Signed and dated (at lower right): Stuart Davis 1921
Executed in 1921

RECORDED: Karen Wilkin, Stuart Davis (1987), p. 90 pl. 90 as Untitled // // Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, eds., Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2 ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007 ), p. 304 no. 1063 illus.

EXHIBITED: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1976, 20th Century American Drawings, no. 58 as "Untitled (Greek)" // Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1983, Stuart Davis: The Formative Years 1910–1930, no. 15 as "Untitled, Greek Letter Backwards" // Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York, 1986, Selections: Stuart Davis Exhibition, no. 1 // The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991–92, no. 34 // Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, Japan, 1995, Stuart Davis: Retrospective, no. 39 as "Greek Letter Backwards" // The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 2001, Stuart Davis: Art and Theory, 1920–1931, no. 2 as "Greek Backwards" // El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, 2013, Modern American Painting 1907–1936: The Maria and Barry King Collection, no. 74

EX COLL: the artist; to his estate: [to Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, by 2007]; to private collection until 2014