New York Mural Print by c

  PLEASE ALLOW UP TO 3 WEEKS FOR DELIVERY. ITEM IS MADE ON-DEMAND.   Archival print.Printed on acid-free paper.Available in 2 sizes. Option to purchase framed or unframed.  Stuart Davis (American, born 1892).  New York Mural (1932).   Davis made New York Mural in response to a call from the Museum of Modern Art for a show they were doing of murals by painters and sculptors. It was the largest painting he'd made to date. It shows New York City, but in a sense it's also an object portrait of Al Smith who was the four term governor of New York who had lost the bid for the presidency in 1928. Davis with a big fan of Smith, a populist who—crucially, from Davis’s perspective—opposed the Prohibition. Davis pictures objects associated with the governor: derby hats and the Empire State Building, for example. In the upper left corner, the moon throws back a glass of champagne. And a tiger with a serpent’s tail alludes to Tamany Hall, the Democratic political machine that dominated New York Ci