Seven Thoughts

1976 - 1977

Douglas Matthew Davis American, 1933 - 2014

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About the Artwork

Title Seven Thoughts

Artwork Date 1976 - 1977

Artist Douglas Matthew Davis

Life Dates 1933 - 2014

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

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Medium Gelatin silver print

Dimensions Sheet: 30 5/8 × 37 5/8 inches (77.8 × 95.6 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2023.263

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Signed Signed and dated, in pencil, lower right, verso: DM Davis 76-77

Inscriptions Titled, in pencil, lower left verso: Seven Thoughts [underlined], 12/29/76 (Chronology)

Provenance

1990, sold by (Ronalf Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York, New York, USA);
1990-2020, purchased by Gilbert B. Silverman [1925-2016] and Lila Silverman [1933-2020] (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA);
2020-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA), accessioned to the collection in 2023

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Published References

Davis, Douglas, Thomas Deecke, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and Neue Galerie--Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen. Douglas Davis: Arbeiten = Works 1970-1977, Berlin 1977-1978. Berlin, 1978, p. 39 (ill.).

Douglas Davis. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 1988, n.p.

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ca. 1539

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Hans Sebald Beham

ca. 1539

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Seven Thoughts

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