Stuart Davis - Boyajian/ Rutkoski - Stuart Davis, A Catalogue Raisonné - 2007 - Sold

Boyajian/ Rutkoski - Stuart Davis, A Catalog Raisonné - Yale University Press, 2007 - 1574 pp. - Hardcover 3 volumes in a box with dust jacket.
Brand new still in foil.
The long-awaited definitive reference to Stuart Davis's paintings, watercolors, drawings and published illustrationsStuart Davis (1892-1964) left a mark on the art world early in his career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his deeply personal version of the cubism, which firmly established American modernism as a force to rival its European counterpart. Over the course of six decades, Davis produced works of art that took inspiration from European modernists but were deeply rooted in the popular culture of the United States. Jazz music and hipster talk, vaudeville stages, urban street scenes, New England fishing villages, gas stations, storefronts and commercial packaging and advertising images were among the sources that infused his art with energy, bringing sharp edges, radiant colors and syncopated rhythms to a vast array of paintings, watercolors and drawings . Documenting the life's work of this prolific and highly influential artist — who influenced nearly every development in American art, from second-generation Ashcan realism around 1912 to the color field and geometric painting in the 1960s — is a monumental achievement. . In these three volumes, the editors have cataloged 1,749 works of art by the artist—including more than 600 works that have never been illustrated before—with extensive documentation and information about each work of art. A detailed chronology of Davis's life, as well as an illuminating discussion of the compositional relationship between certain works in his oeuvre, round off this study. Stuart Davis: A Catalog Raisonné, beautifully designed and produced, will be the definitive reference for the artist's work for many years to come.