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Provenance

The artist The Downtown Gallery, New York (acquired in 1931) William Steig, New York (acquired circa 1942) Fulton Cutting, New York Edith Halpert, New York Estate of the above Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 14 March 1973, lot 44 Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York Terry De Lapp, Los Angeles Marion and Gustave Ring, Washington, D.C. Estate of the above Sotheby's New York, 3 December 1987, lot 317A The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York Gerald Peters Gallery, New York Private Collection, California (acquired in 2000) Christie's New York, 5 December 2002, lot 207 Private Collection (acquired from the above) Christie's New York, 22 May 2014, lot 13 Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Stuart Davis: Recent Painting in Oil and Watercolor, 1931, no. 6 Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 127th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1932, no. 193 New York, The Downtown Gallery, Main Gallery: Concurrently with Willard Cummings and the 40th Annual Christmas Exhibition, 1965 Ridgefield, Connecticut, The Larry Aldrich Museum, Brandeis University: Creative Arts Awards, 1957-1966: Tenth Anniversary, 1966, no. 2 New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Pioneers of American Abstraction, 1973, no. 24 Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Selections from the Collection of Marion and Gustave Ring, 1985-86, no. 11, illustrated New York, The Forbes Magazine Galleries and Trenton, The New Jersey State Museum, Chairman's Choice: A Miscellany of American Paintings, 1988, no. 12, illustrated New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Stuart Davis: An American Painter, 1991-92, no. 86, illustrated Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, American Vanguards, 1996, illustrated Gloucester, Massachusetts, Cape Ann Historical Museum; Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum; New York, National Academy of Design, Stuart Davis in Gloucester, 1999 Winona, Minnesota, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, 2014-2022 (on loan)

Literature

J. Lilienfield, The Artist and the Times: Readings on the Harlem Renaissance and the European Renaissance , New York, 1996, illustrated on the cover William H. Truettner and Roger B. Stein, Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory, New Haven, 1999, no. 198, p. 176, illustrated Ani Boyajian & Mark Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 3, New Haven, 2007, no. 1550, pp. 211-12, illustrated

Catalog summary

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection Stuart Davis 1892 - 1964 Anchors signed Stuart Davis (upper left); signed, titled and dated Dec. 1930 (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 22 ½ by 32 in. 57.2 by 81.3 cm. Executed in December 1930. Provenance The artist The Downtown Gallery, New York (acquired in 1931) William Steig, New York (acquired circa 1942) Fulton Cutting, New York Edith Halpert, New York Estate of the above Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 14 March 1973, lot 44 Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York Terry De Lapp, Los Angeles Marion and Gustave Ring, Washington, D.C. Estate of the above Sotheby's New York, 3 December 1987, lot 317A The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York Gerald Peters Gallery, New York Private Collection, California (acquired in 2000) Christie's New York, 5 December 2002, lot 207 Private Collection (acquired from the above) Christie's New York, 22 May 2014, lot 13 Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature J. Lilienfield, The Artist and the Times: Readings on the Harlem Renaissance and the European Renaissance , New York, 1996, illustrated on the cover William H. Truettner and Roger B. Stein, Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory, New Haven, 1999, no. 198, p. 176, illustrated Ani Boyajian & Mark Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 3, New Haven, 2007, no. 1550, pp. 211-12, illustrated Exhibited New York, The Downtown Gallery, Stuart Davis: Recent Painting in Oil and Watercolor, 1931, no. 6 Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 127th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1932, no. 193 New York, The Downtown Gallery, Main Gallery: Concurrently with Willard Cummings and the 40th Annual Christmas Exhibition, 1965 Ridgefield, Connecticut, The Larry Aldrich Museum, Brandeis University: Creative Arts Awards, 1957-1966: Tenth Anniversary, 1966, no. 2 New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Pioneers of American Abstraction, 1973, no. 24 Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Selections from the Collection of Marion and Gustave Ring, 1985-86, no. 11, illustrated New York, The Forbes Magazine Galleries and Trenton, The New Jersey State Museum, Chairman's Choice: A Miscellany of American Paintings, 1988, no. 12, illustrated New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Stuart Davis: An American Painter, 1991-92, no. 86, illustrated Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, American Vanguards, 1996, illustrated Gloucester, Massachusetts, Cape Ann Historical Museum; Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum; New York, National Academy of Design, Stuart Davis in Gloucester, 1999 Winona, Minnesota, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, 2014-2022 (on loan)