ID: 700000526 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000526	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Report from Rockport (painting (visual work); Stuart Davis (American, 1892-1964); 1940; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 1992.24.1)

Note: The profusion of colors, lines, and shapes almost obscures the subject of this painting—the bustling town square of Rockport, Massachusetts. Though the scene is filled with gas pumps, trees, and storefront signs, Davis recalls the town’s thriving fishing industry with images of water, nautical flags, ropes, and a Seine-brand fishnet. Considered to be one of the artist’s key works from the 1940s, Report from Rockport epitomizes Davis’s fully articulated "color space" theory, in which juxtapositions of colors create the illusion of depth.

Titles:

Report from Rockport (preferred,C,U,D,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1940

Creator Display:

Stuart Davis (American, 1892-1964) [preferred,VP]

painter Davis, Stuart (American painter and printmaker, 1892-1964) [500115507]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1992.24.1

Credit Line: Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection, Bequest of Edith Abrahamson Lowenthal, 1991

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: H. 61, W. 76.2 cm (H. 24, W. 30 in.)

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

cityscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Rockport [2050502]
	.....(Essex county (county), Massachusetts (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

Copyright: ©Estate of Stuart Davis/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Provenance: the artist, New York (1940–44; sold on February 7, 1944, for $707, through Downtown Gallery, New York to Lowenthal); Edith and Milton Lowenthal, New York (1944–his d. 1987); Edith Lowenthal, New York (1987–d. 1991; her bequest to MMA)

Inscriptions: Signature: [lower right]: STUART DAVIS

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Report from Rockport	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 22 May 2012

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)