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American Paintings and Sculpture
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Artist: Stuart Davis, American, 1892–1964
Switchski’s Syntax
1961
Casein and masking tape on canvas
42 × 56 in. (106.7 × 142.2 cm)
framed: 44 1/8 × 58 1/4 in. (112.1 × 148 cm)
Katharine Ordway Fund
1980.84
Status:
On view
Culture:
American
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Paintings
Bibliography:
Lesley K. Baier, The Katharine Ordway Collection, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983), 5, 84–86, 94, no. 16.
Peter Hawes, A Great Panorama Celebrating Twenty-five Years of American Art at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 54, ill.
Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, 3 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 1:116; 3:453–55, no. 1727, ill.
Harry Cooper and Barbara Haskell, Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, exh. cat. (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2016), 141, fig. 80.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
