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	New Year's Eve (cover of "The Masses"), 1915 Ink and crayon on paper, 24 1/2 x 18 1/4 inches Collection of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
	Hillside Near Gloucester, 1915-16 Oil on canvas, 18 3/4 x 23 1/4 inches Shuman Collection Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
	Gloucester Street, 1916 Oil on canvas, 24 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches Gift of the William H. Lane Foundation Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
	Gas Station, 1917 Oil on canvas, 23 1/8 x 191/8 inches Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution Gift of Knoll International, New York 1980
	Ten Pound Island, 1917 Oil on canvas, 23 x 19 inches Collection of Earl Davis Courtesy of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
	Multiple Views, 1918 Oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 35 1/4 inches Collection of Earl Davis Courtesy of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
	The Morning Walk (Harbor View), 1919 Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches Collection of Earl Davis Courtesy of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
	Gloucester Harbor, 1919 Oil on canvas, 19 x 23 inches Collection of Earl Davis Courtesy of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
	Two Figures, Gloucester Road, 1919 Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches Private collection Courtesy of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
	The Coast, 1921 Oil on canvas, 20 x 40 inches Collection of Earl Davis Courtesy of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
	Wharf, 1921 Oil on canvas, 15 x 23 inches Collection of Earl Davis Courtesy of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
	Town Square, 1925-26 Watercolor on paper, 11 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches Collection of the Newark Museum
	Gas Pumps, 1925-35 Gouache on paper, 15 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Conn. Gift of Henry Schnakenberg
	Garage Lights, 1931-32 Oil on canvas, 32 x 41 7/8 inches Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Gift of the Marion Stratton Gould Fund
	Landscape with Drying Sails, 1931-32 Oil on canvas, 32 x 40 inches Museum Purchase: Howard Fund II, 1981, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
	Composition #4 (Gloucester, Massachusetts) 1932 Gouache and pencil on paper, 21 1/8 x 29 7/8 inches The Museum of Modern Art, New York Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Photograph (c) 1999 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
	Red Cart, 1932 Oil on canvas, 32 1/4 x 50 1/4 inches Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.
	Drawing for Shapes of Landscape Space, Sketchbook 13-28, 1932 Ink on paper, 8 x 10 inches Collection of Earl Davis Courtesy of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
	Drawing from Sketchbook 13-25, 1932 Collection of Earl Davis Courtesy of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
	Art of the People Get Pink Slips, 1937 Gouache, pencil and collage on paper, 15 x 30 1/4 inches Collection of Mrs. Fayez Sarofim
	Swing Landscape, 1938 Oil on canvas, 86 3/4 x 172 1/8 inches Indiana University Art Museum Photo by Michael Cavanagh and Kevin Montague
	Bass Rocks No. 2, 1939 Oil on canvas, 15 x 23 inches Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Acquisition made possible by a generous gift from Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass
	Shapes of Landscape Space, 1939 Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 inches Collection of Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York Gift of Roy R. Neuberger
	Report from Rockport, 1940 Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection Bequest of Edith Abrahamson Lowenthal, 1991
	Rapt at Rappaport's, 1952 Oil on canvas, 52 x 40 inches Hirshborn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
	Memo, 1956 Oil on linen, 36 x 28 1/4 inches National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation
	Combination Concrete, 1958 Oil on canvas, 71 x 53 inches Private collection Courtesy of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York

Notes from The Place I Had Been Looking for, by Karin Wilkin

1. Stuart Davis, "The Cube Root," Artnews 4 (February 1, 1943): 34.

2. Conversation with the author, January 1987.

3. Diane Kelder, ed. Stuart Davis (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971), 20. Originally published in Stuart Davis (New York: American Artists' Group, 1945) and in slightly different form in James Johnson Sweeney, Stuart Davis (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1945).

4. Davis, "The Cube Root," 33-34.

5. Sweeney, Davis, 10.

6. Kelder, Davis, 24.

7. Ibid. 23.

8. Ibid. 23-24.

9. Ibid. 24.

10. Ibid. 25.

11. John Sloan, quoted by Helen Farr Sloan in "Foreword," The Red Cottage (Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1992), unpaged.

12. At least one of Davis's Gloucester friendships was to have lasting repercussions. He stayed in contact with the writer Elliot Paul, who moved to Paris and founded, with Eugene Jolas, the vanguard magazine Transition, which regularly published, along with other experimental writers, Gertrude Stein. When Davis went to Paris in 1928, Paul arranged for him to see Stein's celebrated collection, introduced him to Léger (with whom Davis exchanged studio visits), and tried to arrange a meeting with Picasso.

13. Kelder, Davis, 25.

14. Ibid. 26.

15. Stuart Davis Papers, Harvard University Art Museums, on deposit at Houghton Rare Book Library, Harvard University. Reel 14, November 13, 1957. (Some pages are dated; others are dated and numbered; others have no indications. The papers have been indexed by John R. Lane. Reel numbers refer to microfilm copies; there are no frame numbers.)

16. Kelder, Davis, 26.

17. Davis Papers, reel 1, September 30, 1937.

18. Karen Wilkin, Stuart Davis (New York: Abbeville Press, 1987), 36.

19. Davis, letter to Henry McBride, Creative Art 6 (February 1930): supp. 34-35.

20. See Edward Alden Jewell, "Stuart Davis Offers a Penetrating Survey of the American Scene," New York Times, March 10, 1932, 19, and Henry McBride, "Stuart Davis...Downtown Gallery," New York Sun, March 21, 1932, 6.

21. Davis Papers, Reel 6, February 11, 1942.

22. Dorothy Gees Seckler, "Stuart Davis Paints a Picture," Artnews 52 (June 1953): 33.

23. Wilkin, Davis, 37.

24. All quotations from drawings reproduced in Earl Davis, ed., Stuart Davis Sketchbooks (New York: Estate of Earl Davis, Grace Borgenicht Gallery and The Arts Publisher, Inc., 1986), unpaged.

25. Kelder, Davis, 25.

26. Kelder, Davis, 133. Originally Stuart Davis, "What About Modern Art and Democracy?", Harper's Magazine 188 (December 1943): 19-20, 36.

27. Wilkin, Davis, 37.

28. Davis, "The Cube Root," 34.

* Davis, Sketchbook 13, page 25.

** Davis, Drawing for Shapes of Landscape Space, Sketchbook 13, page 28.

1. Diane Kelder, ed. Stuart Davis (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971), 19. Originally published in Stuart Davis (New York: American Artists' Group, 1945) and in slightly different form in James Johnson Sweeney, Stuart Davis (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1945).

2. Kelder, Davis, 55.

3. Kelder, Davis, 59.

4. Kelder, Davis, 63.

5. Stuart Davis Papers, Fogg Art Museum, Nov. 28, 1941, reprinted in SD: Landscapes, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, 1998.

6. Statement for Contemporary American Painters Series, 1942, Jack C. Rich, Publisher, 1950 Daly Ave., New York City.

7. Walker Arts Center, 1957, not published. Excerpts in exhibition catalogue Stuart Davis, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1957.

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