Edison Mazda
In the early 1920s, in response to the industrial age and increasing consumerism, Davis began to incorporate commercial goods and advertising graphics into his art. Edison Mazda, with its flattened space and collage-like composition, resembles the Cubist still lifes of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Rather than portraying pipe racks and candlesticks, Davis includes a contemporary manufactured object: a blue, seventy-five-watt light bulb.
Artwork Details
- Title: Edison Mazda
- Artist: Stuart Davis (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1892–1964 New York)
- Date: 1924
- Medium: Oil on cardboard
- Dimensions: 24 3/4 × 18 5/8 in. (62.9 × 47.3 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Y. Palitz Jr. Gift, in memory of her father, Nathan Dobson, 1982
- Object Number: 1982.10
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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