Venues:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Rome: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, October 22, 1997–January 12, 1998;
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, February 1–April 19, 1998;
Washington D. C.: National Museum of American Art, May 22–September 7, 1998.

Curator:
Philip Rylands.

Artist:
Stuart Davis.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition was the first European retrospective of America’s first truly original modernist painter, Stuart Davis. He translated cubism into the syncopated jazz rhythms of 1920s New York city and heralded pop art. An aficionado of jazz, who experimented with improvisational composition in the 1920s and 1930s, Davis created a spirited American variant of Picasso’s and Braque’s synthetic cubism and anticipated key elements of pop art.

Partnerships:
Exhibition organized by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in collaboration with the Stuart Davis Estate, and the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York.

Catalogue:
Rylands, Philip. Stuart Davis. Boston, New York, Toronto and London: Bulfinch Press, 1997.

Catalogue in English. Includes a preface by Philip Rylands (Deputy Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection) and essays by Rudi H. Fuchs, Lewis C. Kachur, Diane Kelder, Federica Pirani, Wayne L. Roosa, Ben Sidran, and Karen Wilkin. The catalogue also contains the exhibition checklist, prepared by Diane Kelder, a chronology and a selected bibliography.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1997 .06.