Stuart Davis

American Painter, 1894-1964

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

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Anchor, 1935

•Born in Philadelphia, Penn.

•His mother was a sculptor & his father was an art editor for a newspaper.

• He became a Modern Artist

BIOGRAPHY

Early Work

1917-1922

Barbershop Chord, 1931

Famous for his Hard-edge paintingsand abstract still lifes and landscapes.

Memo, 1956 Combination Concrete

His work shows the environment of American life rearranged into flat poster-like patterns with precise outlines

and sharply contrasting colors.

Abstraction, 1937

"I paint what I see in America, in other words I paint the American scene." Stuart Davis.

New York Waterfront, Oil on Canvas, 1938

Blips and Ifs, 1963-64Owh! in San Pao, 1951

Later WorkPainted pure abstract patterns, often used lettering, suggestions of advertisements.

The Mellow Pad, 1945-51

Colonial Cubism, Oil on Canvas, 1954

Rapt at Rappaport’s, 1952Ready to Wear, 1955