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'''Men Without Women''' is a 1932 mural by the American painter [[Stuart Davis (painter)|Stuart Davis]] executed in what the critic [[Hilton Kramer]] termed a "modified [[Cubist]] style". The work was commissioned for the [[Art Deco]]-style [[Radio City Music Hall]] at [[Rockefeller Center]] in New York City, where it hangs in the downstairs men's lounge.<ref name="NYTimes-Modern-Decorations-1932"></ref><ref></ref><ref name=Roussel2006></ref> It was named by the Rockefeller Center art committee after [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s [[Men Without Women (short story collection)|second short story collection]] of the same name, which had been first published in the same year.<ref> MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref><ref></ref>
==History==
Originally conceived for a show curated by [[Lincoln Kirstein]] at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] named "Murals by American Painters and Photographers", the Radio City Music Hall mural was an outgrowth of the exhibition wherein Davis was one of four artists commissioned from the survey to create a new work for Rockfeller Center, the new "skyscraper city within a city" (the other three having been [[Henry Billings]], [[Louis Bouche]], and [[Henry Varnum Poor]]).
In 1975 it was given to the [[Museum of Modern Art]] as a gift.<ref></ref><ref></ref> This was an arrangement which included the restoration of the work after decades of casual damage to it, including countless wafts of cigarette and cigar smoke that had stained the canvas.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> The work was then loaned back to the music hall in 1999 in the conjunction with the restoration of the arts facility.<ref name=Roussel2006/>
==References==
[[Category:American paintings]]
[[Category:Murals in New York City]]
[[Category:Rockefeller Center]]
[[Category:1932 paintings]]
==History==
Originally conceived for a show curated by [[Lincoln Kirstein]] at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] named "Murals by American Painters and Photographers", the Radio City Music Hall mural was an outgrowth of the exhibition wherein Davis was one of four artists commissioned from the survey to create a new work for Rockfeller Center, the new "skyscraper city within a city" (the other three having been [[Henry Billings]], [[Louis Bouche]], and [[Henry Varnum Poor]]).
In 1975 it was given to the [[Museum of Modern Art]] as a gift.<ref></ref><ref></ref> This was an arrangement which included the restoration of the work after decades of casual damage to it, including countless wafts of cigarette and cigar smoke that had stained the canvas.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> The work was then loaned back to the music hall in 1999 in the conjunction with the restoration of the arts facility.<ref name=Roussel2006/>
==References==
[[Category:American paintings]]
[[Category:Murals in New York City]]
[[Category:Rockefeller Center]]
[[Category:1932 paintings]]
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