1924, Stuart Davis, Edison Mazda -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: In the early 1920s, in response to the industrial age and increasing consumerism, Davis began to incorporate commercial goods and advertising graphics into his art. Edison Mazda, with its flattened space and collage-like composition, resembles the Cubist still lifes of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Rather than portraying pipe racks and candlesticks, Davis includes a contemporary manufactured object: a blue, seventy-five-watt lightbulb.
1924, Stuart Davis, Edison Mazda -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: In the early 1920s, in response to the industrial age and increasing consumerism, Davis began to incorporate commercial goods and advertising graphics into his art. Edison Mazda, with its flattened space and collage-like composition, resembles the Cubist still lifes of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Rather than portraying pipe racks and candlesticks, Davis includes a contemporary manufactured object: a blue, seventy-five-watt lightbulb.