For lovers of American modernism, Stuart Davis (1892-1964) is a giant—an inspired colorist whose radiant, muscular paintings translate French Cubism into an unmistakably American, richly varied, ...

Stuart Davis' Lucky Strike, finished in 1924, shows his interest in packaging, in this case cigarettes--like Synthetic Cubists, Davis found tobacco to be essential for modern life. "Stuart Davis In ...

Stuart Davis’ ‘The Mellow Pad’ at the de Young (Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco). The Stuart Davis exhibition, “In Full Swing,” does anything but. It’s a retrospective (up until ...

MANITOWOC — In the early part of each year, staff at Rahr-West Art Museum focus on taking down the Christmas decorations and reinstalling the historic Vilas-Rahr Mansion with art from our permanent ...

It all began with an eggbeater. When Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1927 gave the young American artist Stuart Davis a stipend so that he could concentrate entirely on his art, he “nailed an electric ...

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 ...