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Myopic Vista
Myopic Vista

Myopic Vista

Stuart Davis (American, 1892–1964)
1925
Medium/TechniqueOpaque watercolors with graphite underdrawing
DimensionsSheet: 38.6 x 45.8 cm (15 3/16 x 18 1/16 in.)
Framed: 64.5 x 71.1 cm (25 3/8 x 28 in.)
Credit LineGift of the William H. Lane Foundation
Accession number1990.393
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
Provenance1929, sold by the artist to Juliana Force (b. 1876 – d. 1948), New York [see note 1]; 1931, to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. May 8, 1954, sold by Downtown Gallery, New York to William H. Lane (b. 1914 – d. 1995), Leominster, MA [see note 2]; 1954, transferred to the William H. Lane Foundation, Leominster; 1990, gift of the William H. Lane Foundation to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 18, 1990)

NOTES:
[1] Juliana Force purchased this painting at the 1929 Davis exhibition at the Whitney Studio Club. She would become the director of the Whitney Museum in 1930.

[2] Archives of American Art, Downtown Gallery Records, Series 4, Business Records: Sales Slips (1 of 2), 1954: Reel 5627 (Box 72), Frame 911, sold as Myopic Vista, 1923, on gouache.

Copyright© Estate of Stuart Davis / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.