The Argument

© Estate of Stuart Davis/VAGA for ARS, New York, NY, New York, NY. Photograph and digital image…
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The Argument
© Estate of Stuart Davis/VAGA for ARS, New York, NY, New York, NY. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

The Argument

Datec. 1915
Artist (American painter and printmaker, 1894–1964)
MediumMonotype
Dimensionscomposition: 7 1/16 × 5 3/16 in. (17.9 × 13.2 cm)
sheet: 10 × 7 5/16 in. (25.4 × 18.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-43
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextOn occasion, artist-friends gathered at John Sloan's studio and produced monotypes. This print by 21-year-old Stuart Davis is likely the result of one of those evenings. Sloan had been friends with Davis' father since they were young newspaper illustrators in Philadelphia.