About the Artwork
The Sword
1950
Kenneth Southworth Davies
born 1925
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Overall: 40 7/8 × 31 7/8 inches (103.8 × 81 cm)
Paintings
Contemporary Art after 1950
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman
52.156
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Markings
Signed on the painted stretcher in lower right: Ken Davies '50
Dated: '50
Provenance
1952-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 32, no. 4 (1952-1953): 94.
State Fair of Texas Art Exhibition. Exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Dallas, 1953, (ill.).
Things: Still Life Painting from the 17th to the 20th Century. Exh. cat., Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario. Windsor, 1969, no. 47.
Ken Davies. Exh. cat., Hirschl and Adler Gallery. New York, 1978, no. 3.
Ken Davies: 35 Years, a New Bedford Homecoming. Exh. cat., Old Dartmouth Historical Society and Whaling Museum. New Bedford, 1983, no. 4.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Kenneth Southworth Davies, The Sword, 1950, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, 52.156.
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