Int'l+Surface+No.+1

Date: 1960
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1969/1969.47.55_1a.jpg?itok=LBMmR4bX width="256" height="326" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/intl-surface-no-1-6353"]] || Titles: **Int'l Surface No. 1**

Artist: **Stuart Davis** Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1892 Died: New York, New York 1964

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 57 1/8 x 45 1/8 in. (145.2 x 114.6 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.

Accession: 1969.47.55 || Fortune Magazine asked seven artists to create modern still-life paintings based on items purchased from a supermarket. Stuart Davis arranged the food packages on the floor of his studio, and then he played with the labels to create a witty composition on the canvas. Davis offers coded references to his interest in jazz by choosing words like "cat" and "juice," which double as musical slang.
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