Stuart Davis (painter)
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Born | Philadelphia |
December 7, 1892
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Nationality | American |
Known for | Painting, Modernism |
Movement | American modernism |
Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 – June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his ashcan pictures in the early years of the 20th century.
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Life and career
Stuart Davis was born December 7, 1892 in Philadelphia to Edward Wyatt Davis, art editor of the Philadelphia Press, and Helen Stuart Davis, sculptor.[1] Starting in 1909, Davis begun his formal art training under Robert Henri, the leader of the Ashcan School, at the Robert Henri School of Art in New York under 1912.[2][1] During this time, Davis befriended painters John Sloan, Glenn Coleman and Henry Glintenkamp.[3]
In 1913, Davis was one of the youngest painters to exhibit in the Armory Show, where he displayed five watercolor paintings in the Ashcan school style.[4][5] In the show, Davis was exposed to the works of a number of artists including Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Davis became a committed "modern" artist and a major exponent of cubism and modernism in America.[4] He spent summers painting in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and made painting trips to Havana in 1918 and New Mexico in 1923.[4]
In the 1920s he began his development into his mature style; painting abstract still lifes and landscapes. His use of contemporary subject matter such as cigarette packages and spark plug advertisements suggests a proto-Pop art element to his work.[6]
In 1928, he visited Paris, where he painted street scenes. In the 1930s, he became increasingly politically engaged; according to Cécile Whiting, Davis' goal was to "reconcile abstract art with Marxism and modern industrial society".[4] In 1934 he joined the Artists' Union; he was later elected its President.[4] In 1936 the American Artists' Congress elected him National Secretary. He painted murals for Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration which are influenced by his love of jazz.[4]Davis married in 1938 to Roselle Springer and spent his late life teaching at the New York School for Social Research and at Yale University.[1]
He was represented by Edith Gregor Halpert at the Downtown Gallery in New York City.
Davis died of a stroke in New York on June 24, 1964, aged 71.[1]
Public collections
Among the public collections holding work by Stuart Davis are:
Selected works
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Garage No. 1, 1917, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
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Lucky Strike, 1921, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
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Steeple and Street, 1922, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
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The Mellow Pad - Brooklyn Museum - 1945-1951
See also
References and sources
- References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Passantino, p 441
- ↑ Cooper, Philip. Cubism. London: Phaidon, 1995, p. 120. ISBN 0714832502
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Cécile Whiting, "Stuart Davis", Oxford Art Online
- ↑ Boyajian and Rutkoski pp 39-40.
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- Sources
- 2007 - Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné (3 volumes) by William Agee (Editor), Karen Wilkin, (Editor), Ani Boyajian, Mark Rutkoski (ISBN 0-300-10981-4)
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- Lowery Stokes Sims et al., Stuart Davis: American Painter, 333 pages, 129 color illus., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1991.
- Karen Wilkin 1999 - Stuart Davis in Gloucester (ISBN 1-889097-34-9)
External links
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- Stuart Davis Artwork Examples on AskART.
- Stuart Davis Artwork Examples on ibiblio's WebMuseum.
- Comrades in Art: Stuart Davis
- Stuart Davis' Swing Landscape
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