Percolator by Stuart Davis in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2011

Percolator

Stuart Davis (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1892–1964 New York City)

Date: 1927

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: H. 36, W. 29 inches (91.4 x 73.7 cm.)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1956

Accession Number: 56.195

Description:

This painting deconstructs the rounded, cylindrical forms of an ordinary coffee pot into the Cubist language of flat, overlapping planes and wedges. It was one of the first times Davis used what he called "color-space logic"—placing colors in such a way as to suggest spatial relationships. The composition's diagonal lines and trapezoidal planes also enhance an illusion of three-dimensionality which turns this still life into an architectural setting.

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