Gloucester Rains Like Hell, Santa Fe Hace Calor
Date1920
Artist
Stuart Davis
(American painter and printmaker, 1894–1964)
MediumWatercolor and ink on postcard
Dimensionssheet: 3 1/4 × 5 1/2 in. (8.3 × 14 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-589.19
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextJohn and Dolly Sloan spent summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts, from 1914 to 1918, and in Santa Fe, New Mexico after 1919. Davis sent this postcard to the Sloans in the summer of 1920, their second year in Santa Fe. In the teens, the Sloans had introduced Davis to Gloucester and he continued to visit the coastal town, as this postcard, mailed from Gloucester, attests. In 1923 Davis would make his way to Santa Fe, but he found himself overwhelmed by the picturesque scenery and produced few pictures there.
Charles Davis Mitchell
1929
