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The Rebel (Elizabeth Ruskin) (La rebelde)
Title

The Rebel (Elizabeth Ruskin) (La rebelde)

Artist/Maker

Lew Davis, American, 1910 - 1979

Date

1932

Type Of Object

painting

Medium

oil on canvas

Credit Line

Gift of Jeanne L. Herberger, Ph.D. In loving memory of Gary Kierland Herberger

Object Number

2018.64

Image Credit

© Phoenix Art Museum. All rights reserved. Photo by Mike Lundgren.

Department

American and Western American

On View

Yes

Location

North Wing, Second Floor, Western American Art Gallery

Description

Born in the copper mining town of Jerome, Lew Davis left Arizona at the age of 17 for New York. For the next four years, Davis studied at the National Academy of Design where he became skilled at rendering the human figure. This painting features one of his fellow students, Elizabeth Ruskin. Although she stares directly at the viewer with an unsettling intensity, we know very little about her story except that she was a student in one of his art classes. That she was attracted to Davis is suggested by the two apples on the plate on the floor that allude to Adam’s temptation by Eve.

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