Rue des Rats

Maker and role
Artist: Stuart Davis, American, 1892-1964
 Year
1929
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Object detail

Media/Materials
Lithograph
Measurements
10 1/8 x 15 1/4in (25.7 x 38.7cm)
Credit line
Gift of the Friends of the McNay
Accession number
1993.29
Object type
Prints
Department
Prints and Drawings
Location
Not on view
Further information
In the late 1920s, the American modernist Stuart Davis traveled to Paris and experimented with Cubist ideas in his compositions. Rue des Rats presents a play between abstraction and representation that reveals Davis was thinking about Cubism and different ways of seeing. The letters VIN and partial S recall bits of words seen in the works of Braque, like Pale Ale.
Copyright
© Estate of Stuart Davis/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Documentation
Stuart Davis: Graphic Work and Related Paintings with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints; Sylvan Cole (b.1918, d.2005), Jane Myers, Diane Kelder; 1986; 5
Subject period
Cubist
American Modernist
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