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| WorkSchool of Stuart Davis
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut. Gift of the Estate of George Deem, 2013. Accession Number 2013.54.111 | Image Notes| Artist's Notes
My School of Stuart Davis is a lesson in reading a painting, starting with the word "school" at the top of the painting. I first understood cubism by looking at the paintings of Stuart Davis. He turned letters of the alphabet into objects. A master of calligraphy and a master of color, Stuart Davis constructed illusions of perforations so persuasively that one actually reads his paintings. To the left of the "ABC" on the blackboard in my painting, a four-paned window opens to a blast of red wind that travels across the room all the way to the right of the blackboard. The red-and-white tiles of the floor grow into positive and negative profiles of school desks. The white calligraphic squiggles allow the desks to be read in profile. But, as this is a cubist exercise, the desks may also be read from above with their round holes for ink wells. In the same way, one can read the attached seats of the desks sometimes negatively, sometimes positively, and ambiguously both at the same time. Stuart Davis often incorporated his signature in his compositions. In my painting his signature is chalked in white on the blackboard. The word "error" and the bold, white "X" are also signature elements of Davis paintings. Actually, however, the word "error" is mine, chosen as a school word that applies to lessons. (George Deem, undated note on his painting School of Stuart Davis, 1987).
| ExhibitionsPavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana The Branson School, Ross, California
Pavel Zoubok at Mary Delahoyd Gallery, New York
Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| WorkSchool of Stuart Davis
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut. Gift of the Estate of George Deem, 2013. Accession Number 2013.54.111 | Image Notes| Artist's Notes| Exhibitions |
