New Jersey Landscape (Seine Cart)

Art © Stuart Davis / Licensed by VAGA, New York

New Jersey Landscape (Seine Cart)

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New Jersey Landscape (Seine Cart),

1939

Stuart Davis, American, 1894–1964

Stuart Davis, American, 1894–1964

x1941-20
Seine Cart is one of four lithographs Davis made through the Graphic Arts Program of the Federal Art Project. The initiative funded printed work during the Great Depression that was distributed to libraries and universities. This print was inspired by the year (1928–29) the artist spent in Paris, painting street scenes that expressed how the forces of modernity were transforming daily life there—a theme that also resonated with changes in his home city, New York. Seine Cart demonstrates Davis’s pioneering pairing of the visual language of Cubism with an interest in contemporary urban subjects inspired by his early training with Robert Henri, leader of the Ashcan School painters, a group known for depictions of city life.

Information

Title
New Jersey Landscape (Seine Cart)
Dates

1939

Maker
Stuart Davis
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 19.5 x 34.3 cm. (7 11/16 x 13 1/2 in.) sheet: 29 x 40.5 cm. (11 7/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Federal Art Project, W.P.A. Loan
Object Number
x1941-20
Signatures
Signed and dated in ink, lower right: STUART DAVIS '39
Inscription
Titled in graphite, lower center: Seine Cart
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamped in ink, lower left: FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA
Reference Numbers
Cole 20
Culture
American
Type
lithographs, prints
Techniques
lithography
Subject
dots, abstraction, geometric abstraction, line, carts

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