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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