Stuart Davis (painter)

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Photograph of Stuart Davis, 1940
Photograph of Stuart Davis, 1940

Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892–June 24, 1964), was an American painter

He was born in Philadelphia to Edward Wyatt Davis and Helen Stuart Davis. His parents were both worked in the arts. His father was the art editor of the Philadelphia Press while his mother was a sculptor.

Davis studied painting, and art under Robert Henri, the leader of the early modern art group the Eight; he was one of the youngest painters to exhibit in the controversial Armory Show of 1913. Exposed as he was at this exhibition to the work of such artists as Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, he became a committed "modern" artist and a major exponent of cubism and modernism in America.

He was represented by Edith Gregor Halpert at the Downtown Gallery in New York City.

He is probably most famous for his Hard-edge paintings his abstract still lifes and landscapes; his use of contemporary subject matter such as cigarette packages, spark plug advertisements and the contemporary American landscape make him a proto-Pop artist. [1]

Davis died of a stroke in New York on June 24, 1964.

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Garage No. 1, 1917.

Tree and Urn, 1921.

Lucky Strike, 1921.

Steeple and Street, 1922.

Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors - 7th Avenue Style, 1940.

  1. ^ http://www.jasonkaufman.com/articles/stuart_davis_american_modernist.htm accessed online July 12, 2007


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