Stuart Davis (1892-1964)
Landscape, Gloucester
inscribed with title and inscribed, dated, and signed 'I made this painting / ca 1917 Stuart Davis / 4/18/60' (on the reverse of the relined canvas)
oil on canvas
19 x 23 in. (48.3 x 58.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1917.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Frank Kidder, Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1917.
Paul Kidder, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, by descent from the above, 1922.
Edward Edouard H Buron Duburon (1905-1996), Needham, Massachusetts, May 20, 1959.
Edith Gregor Halpert (1900-1970), New York, 1960.
Estate of the above, 1970.
Sale, Sotheby's Parke Bernet Inc., New York, May 16, 1973, lot 118, sold by the above.
Peter R. Blum, Hartford, Connecticut, acquired at the above sale.
Sale, Christie's, New York, December 5, 1980, lot 192, sold by the above.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited
New York, The Downtown Gallery, New Acquisitions, January 9-February 6, 1961.
Des Moines Art Center, Six Decades of American Painting of the Twentieth Century, February 10-March 12, 1961, n.p., no. 12, illustrated.
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Abstract Painting in America, 1903-1923, March 27-April 21, 1962, n.p. no. 2.
Iowa City, Iowa, The New Gallery, Department of Art, University of Iowa, Vintage Moderns: American Pioneer Artists, 1903-1932, Plus 4 Related Photographers, May 24-August 2, 1962, pp. 6, 9, no. 4, illustrated.
Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, September 28-November 11, 1962, n.p.
Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The New Tradition: Modern Americans before 1940, April 27-June 2, 1963, pp. 29, 57, no. 19, illustrated.
London, The Leicester Galleries in association with The Downtown Gallery, Six Decades of American Art, July 14-August 18, 1965, n.p., no. 6.
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, American Landscape: A Changing Frontier, April 28-June 19, 1966, p. 3.

Literature
A. Boyajian, M. Rutkowski, eds., Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, vol. III, pp. 58-59, no. 1402, illustrated.