stuart davis
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Stuart DavisAmerican Painter, 1894-1964
•Born in Philadelphia, Penn.•His mother was a sculptor & his father was an art editor for a newspaper.
Early Work1917-1922
He became famous for his hard-edge paintingsand abstract still-life paintings and landscapes.
New York Waterfront, Oil on Canvas, 1938
Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors - 7th Avenue Style, 1940.
Abstraction, 1937
"I paint what I see in America, in other words I paint the American scene." Stuart Davis.
Owh! in San Pao, 1951
The Mellow Pad, 1945-51
Rapt at Rappaport’s, 1952
Davis was well known for his bold, brash, and colorful, jazz-influenced paintings of the 1940s and 1950s.
Colonial Cubism, Oil on Canvas, 1954
Ready to Wear, 1955
Blips and Ifs, 1963-64
In his later paintings he painted purely abstract patterns.
He often used lettering, suggestions of advertisements.
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