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Provenance: The artist.
Charles Allan Winter and Alice Beach Winter, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Alice Beach Winter, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1942.
Estate of the above, 1968.
[With]Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
[With]Jason McCoy, Inc., New York, circa 1977.
[With]Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, 1985.
[With]Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, 1986.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2000.

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Exhibited: New York, Folsom Galleries, Initial Exhibition of the American Salon of Humorists, April 17-May 1, 1915, no. 45.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Rahr-West Museum, and elsewhere, Stuart Davis: The Formative Years, 1910-1930, March 31-May 8, 1983, no. 7 (as Mining Town Ladies).
New York, Washburn Gallery, Stuart Davis: Works from 1913-1919, November 3-December 23, 1983, no. 3 (as Mining Town Ladies).
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Aspects of America: The Land and the People, 1810-1930, May 1985, no. 33.
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., The Figure in American Art, 1764-1983, May 1986, no. 20.
Brooklyn, New York, Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College, Tides of Immigration: Romantic Visions and Urban Realities, October 7-December 9, 1986.
New York, Sid Deutsch Gallery, Urban and Suburban America, March 26-April 27, 1988.
Providence, Rhode Island, Brown University, Davis Winton Bell Gallery, Over Here: Modernism, The First Exile, 1914-1919, April 15-May 29, 1989, no. 18.
Boca Raton, Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, and elsewhere, American Modernism: Paintings from the Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kauffman Collection, November 19, 2003-January 18, 2004.
Tampa, Florida, Tampa Museum of Art, American Modernism from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kauffman, January 8-February 27, 2011.

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Literature: Folsom Galleries, Initial Exhibition of the American Salon of Humorists, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1915, n.p., no. 45.
E. Julius, "Humor in American Art," New York Call, May 2, 1915, sec. 2, p. 8, illustrated.
Washburn Gallery, Stuart Davis: Works from 1913-1919, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1983, n.p., no. 3 (as Mining Town Ladies).
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Aspects of America: The Land and the People, 1810-1930, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1985, n.p., no. 33, illustrated.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., The Figure in American Art, 1764-1983, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1986, n.p., no. 20, illustrated.
I.E. Orav, Urban and Suburban America, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1988, n.p., cover illustration.
K.S. Champa, ed., Over Here: Modernism, the First Exile, 1914-1919, exhibition catalogue, Providence, Rhode Island, 1989, p. 127, no. 18, illustrated.
Boca Raton Museum of Art, American Modernism: Paintings from the Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kauffman Collection, exhibition catalogue, Boca Raton, Florida, 2003, pp. 26, 69, no. 18, illustrated.
A. Boyajian, M. Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. three, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, pp. 28-29, no. 1362, illustrated.

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Notes: Property from the Collection of Dr. Mark and Irene Kauffman

Stuart Davis (1892-1964)
Mountains and Molehills
signed 'Stuart Davis' (lower center)
oil on canvas
49½ x 40 in. (125.7 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted in 1915.