Saw
Stuart Davis
1923
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 94 × 55.9 cm (37 × 22 in.)
- Genre
- oil on canvas
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
CubismpaintingModernismcanvasmodern and contemporary artoil on canvasoil paint (paint)
About
In this painting, Stuart Davis presented the saw as a modern icon for the 20th century. It is one of a series of paintings of solitary objects he produced in the 1920s. Here the tool floats in a Cubist composition of flat, abstract planes. The elevation of mundane objects to artistic subjects appealed to modernists like Davis because it signaled a new means of working that was free of art historical associations.
