In the decades between the world wars, painting was propelled to the centre of debates about the health of American public life and cultural democracy. Stuart Davis participated in the ensuing ...

Art historians and curators offer disparate explanations for Stuart Davis’ absence from the list of American artists who are “household names.” Stuart was ahead of his time, say some. His paintings ...

Stuart Davis has a sure claim to a place in the history of American art. As early as 1932, he was hailed as “the ace of American modernists” and there is scarcely a museum in the United States that ...

The exhibition that belatedly introduced Van Gogh, Cezanne, Matisse, Rouault, Braque and Picasso to the U.S. public—Manhattan’s Armory Show in 1913 —also inspired a young U.S. artist named Stuart ...

HMSG copy is a gift from the National Gallery of Art. NGA borrowed works from the Hirshhorn for this exhibition. "Hailed as a precursor of both pop art and contemporary abstraction, Stuart Davis ...

In 1937, Stuart Davis received a commission from the WPA Federal Art Project to paint a mural for a low-income public housing development in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Then, the neighborhood was a ...

In both his life and his art, Stuart Davis is as American as bourbon on the rocks. A dumpy, bejowled man who talks with down-to-earth honesty in a good-natured nasal growl, Davis likes television, ...

Stuart Davis, “Lucky Strike” (1921), oil on canvas, 33 1/4 x 18 inches, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; gift of the American Tobacco Company, Inc., 1951 (all ...