Percolator

Stuart Davis

1927 · Oil on canvas · Modern and Contemporary Art

Influenced by the Cubist language of flat, overlapping planes and wedges, Davis used geometric shapes in related colors to create this still life. Here, he deconstructs the cylindrical forms of a mass-produced, percolator coffeepot and renders the everyday object both abstract and identifiable. By choosing an industrially produced consumer product as his subject, Davis put a new spin on the spatial innovations of the previous decade’s European avant-garde art movements.

Artist

Stuart Davis

Date

1927

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1956