Stuart davis

Introduction for beginning Drawing and Painting students, using the elements: line, shape and form to introduce the concept of design. Discussed Stuart Davis and how he incorporates the three elements into his artworks.

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Stuart Davis, the only first-class Cubist to emerge from North America, concentrated single-mindedly on making art quiver with the energy he perceived around him, “jazzing up” details of the American Scene, in particular its stereotypical attributes, advertising hieroglyphics, and verbal colloquialisms. The core of the exhibition of his work, now at the Whitney, shows Davis applying his methodology to easel paintings of varying sizes—including small, amazingly intricate jigsaw-puzzle…

Anthony van Dyck, Edgar Degas and Kerry James Marshall were just some of the standouts in the year’s museum exhibitions.

Stuart Davis, New York Mural, 1932 | Whitney Museum of American Art

Peter Schjeldahl on the retrospective “In Full Swing,” at the Whitney Museum.

With the Whitney Museum opening a massive, 100-work Stuart Davis retrospective, we turn back to the April 1957 issue of ARTnews, in which Elaine de Kooning reviewed a different retrospective, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. (Coincidentally, that show also traveled to the Whitney.) De Kooning wrote that the painter was as American as […]

If there is a message in the Whitney’s large gathering of the work of Stuart Davis, it may be simply that time hasn’t dented the power of the painter’s work. While some of the pictures breathe merely a period air, a great many continue to give pleasure, and, as an added attraction—as the artist with his love for everyday turns of phrase might have said—it isn’t easy to say why.