The Sword, 1950

  • Kenneth Southworth Davies, American, born 1925

Oil on canvas

  • Overall: 40 7/8 × 31 7/8 inches (103.8 × 81 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman

52.156

Signed on the painted stretcher in lower right: Ken Davies '50

Dated: '50

1952-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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.

Kenneth Southworth Davies, The Sword, 1950, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, 52.156.