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Arboretum by Flashbulb

Stuart Davis American
1942
Not on view
This composition embodies the syncopated rhythms of American jazz and the dynamism of modern life. Working with a limited palette of just five colors, plus black and white, the artist produced a tour-de-force of patterns, shapes, color combinations, and spatial ambiguities. Abstracted almost beyond recognition, the image is based on a garden, momentarily illuminated by the yellow-and-red light of a camera flash.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Arboretum by Flashbulb
  • Artist: Stuart Davis (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1892–1964 New York)
  • Date: 1942
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 18 × 36 in. (45.7 × 91.4 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection, Bequest of Edith Abrahamson Lowenthal, 1991
  • Object Number: 1992.24.2
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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