Barber Shop Chord, 1931

Not on View

Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 35.3 x 48.4 cm (13 7/8 x 19 1/16 in.)

sheet: 45.2 x 55.8 cm (17 13/16 x 21 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Cole 1976, no. 14

Accession Number

2005.99.10

Artists / Makers

Stuart Davis (artist) American, 1892 - 1964

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Inscription

lower left on stone: Stuart Davis; lower left in graphite: 20/25; lower right in graphite: Stuart Davis; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: #14 Barber Shop Chord; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 20.

Marks and Labels

Ruth Kainen stamp The Downtown Gallery (NOV 15 1935) stamp

Provenance

(Angus Whyte Gallery, Boston); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased August 8, 1973; gift to NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Whyte, Angus

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 179.

2014: Modern American Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014-2015

2016: Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 78.

Bibliography

1976: Cole, Sylvan. The Prints of Stuart Davis. New York: Associated American Artists, 1976, no. 14.

2006: Brodie, Judith. "Gifts and Acquisitions: Stuart Davis, Barber Shop Chord.Sea." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 34 (Spring 2006): 24-25, repro.