Recognitions cover art for penguin edition 1993 "the mellow pad"

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The Mellow Pad (turns out this painting is derivative from  
painter's "original")

The starting point for this lively patterned abstraction was an
earlier canvas by Stuart Davis entitled House and Street, 1931.
Treating each subsequent version as a riff on a jazz theme,
Davis moved further and further away from his original composition
to establish independent, rhythmic color patterns that retained only
a few direct visual cues to the original composition. Davis theorized that
abstract compositions could communicate to the viewer something of the
subject from which they were derived. This composition embodies the
“mellow pad”—jazz lingo for the “cool” place to be. Jazz rhythms were
a potent inspiration for Davis, and their presence added a distinctly
American component to his abstractions.


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