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Stuart Davis
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Fan account of Stuart Davis, an early American modernist painter known for his jazz-influenced, proto-pop art paintings of the 1940s.
1892-1964
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Landscape https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1505
Landscape
January 1, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Place Pasdeloup No. 2 http://www.moma.org/collection/works/73661
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
December 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Seine Cart https://www.wikiart.org/en/stuart-davis/seine-cart-1939
Seine Cart
December 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Detail Study for a Cliche https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/80136
Detail Study for a Cliche
December 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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The Tug Boat https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/354058
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund, Daniel A. Pollack Acquisition Fund, through the generosity of Tunie Hamlin Howe in memory of John S. Hamlen, Elizabeth and Richard Miller, Kathleen Hohlstein, Catherine Lastavica, Charles O... © Estate of Stuart Davis / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
December 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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G&W https://www.wikiart.org/en/stuart-davis/g-w-1944
G&W
December 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Landscape with Clay Pipe https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2099
Landscape with Clay Pipe
December 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Theater on the Beach http://www.moma.org/collection/works/82622
Ann and Lee Fensterstock Fund and John B. Turner Fund
December 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Famous Firsts https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/75294
Famous Firsts
December 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Composition http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/davis-composition-p77810
Purchased 1996
December 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Two Heads http://www.moma.org/collection/works/73653
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
December 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Lucky Strike http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78934
Gift of The American Tobacco Company, Inc.
December 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Untitled (Landscape) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/121958/
Untitled (Landscape)
December 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Multiple Views https://www.wikiart.org/en/stuart-davis/multiple-views
Multiple Views
December 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The Mellow Pad https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2101
The Mellow Pad
December 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Sixth Avenue El http://www.moma.org/collection/works/73629
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Ready-to-Wear https://www.artic.edu/artworks/2189/
Stuart Davis was acquainted from an early age with John Sloan and Robert Henri, leaders of the so-called Ashcan School, a group of artists committed to depicting all aspects of modern urban life. Davis studied at Henri’s New York school, but he eventually came to disagree with his teacher’s belief in the preeminence of content over composition and form; instead, he created a style in which he generalized and abstracted his shapes and the spaces between them. Nonetheless, Davis’s art is never totally abstract. Twentieth-century America is reflected in the shapes and colors he chose and in the sheer vitality of his compositions. His style—big, bright, bold, and clear—is completely appropriate to his subject matter. Forms have been reduced to large colored planes; words or numbers are simplified and offered as elements of design. In Ready-to-Wear, the bright, unmixed colors recall those of the French artist Fernand Léger. The way in which they intersect and interrupt one another, however, conveys a mood that is distinctly American: energetic, jazzy, mass produced—all qualities summed up in the title. The planes, reminiscent of overlapping pasted-down paper cutouts, even suggest the garment patterns from which ready-to-wear clothes are assembled. Restricted gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund W. Kunstadter; Goodman Endowment
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Detail Study #1 for "Package Deal" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/180821/
Although he studied with the quintessential early 20th-century American painter Robert Henri, Stuart Davis was profoundly influenced by European abstract art, especially the flattened planes of Cubist art that he saw at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. Later Davis also used the solid forms of signage and advertising to evoke the tempo of jazz and urban street life, as in this drawing. Made as a commission for Fortune magazine in 1956, Package Deal is a series of works in which Davis reinterpreted the traditional theme of still life. Gift of Leo S. Guthman
December 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Barber Shop Chord http://www.moma.org/collection/works/73669
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
December 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Egg Beater, V http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78895
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
December 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Composition http://www.moma.org/collection/works/73637
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Visa https://www.wikiart.org/en/stuart-davis/visa-1951
Visa
December 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Owh! in San Pao https://www.wikiart.org/en/stuart-davis/owh-in-san-pao-1951
Owh! in San Pao
December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Steeple and Street https://www.wikiart.org/en/stuart-davis/steeple-and-street-1922
Steeple and Street
December 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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New York Waterfront https://www.wikiart.org/en/stuart-davis/new-york-waterfront-1938
New York Waterfront
December 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM