{"data":{"id":"1607","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":1607,"topgoose_id":14296,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":1607,"title":"House and Street","display_artist_text":"Stuart Davis","display_date":"1931","accession_number":"41.3","dimensions":"Overall: 26 1/8 × 42 1/8 in. (66.4 × 107 cm)","medium":"Oil on canvas","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Purchase","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eStuart Davis, \u003cem\u003eHouse and Street\u003c/em\u003e, 1931. Oil on canvas, overall: 26 1/8 × 42 1/8 in. (66.4 × 107 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 41.3. © Estate of Stuart Davis / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough photographs from the 1930s reveal that \u003ci\u003eHouse and Street\u003c/i\u003e represents the intersection of Front Street and Coenties Slip in lower Manhattan, complete with a backdrop of tenements and commercial skyscrapers, the painting’s most striking formal feature is the splitting of the intersection into two simultaneous, yet distinct street views—what Stuart Davis referred to as a “mental collage.” Davis was a movie fan, and it seems likely that he structured his composition like frames in a strip of film. \u003ci\u003eHouse and Street\u003c/i\u003e, like many of his cityscapes, incorporates the barrage of signs, words, and lettering that constantly confront urban inhabitants. Along with “Front,” for Front Street, the artist included a bell—the symbol of the telephone company—and the word “Smith,” which may derive from a campaign poster for Alfred E. Smith, the popular governor of New York State who was seeking his party’s nomination in the 1932 presidential race. \u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Bright stylized storefront and surrounding buildings with the name SMITH on a green sign.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:19:26.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:59.440-05:00","images":[{"id":93361,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/1607/41_3_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"330","type":"artist"}]}}}}