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Summary of Stuart Davis

One of America's first modern artists and a forefather of Pop art, Stuart Davis began his artistic career with the Ashcan School before embracing European modernism following the Armory Show. The artist's abstract paintings, infused with jazz rhythm and bold, colorful abstractions of New York's urban landscape or household objects, offer a taste of European Cubism with an American twist. Whether painting in the style of realism or Post-cubist abstraction, Davis's determination to convey something of American political and consumer culture was unwavering.

Accomplishments

• Davis is credited with developing an American variation of European Cubism at a time when modernism was just beginning to infiltrate the country. Through slang words and imagery that were distinctly American, Davis's paintings established the country's presence in the burgeoning modern art world.
• The artist was one of the first to consider jazz and swing music in conjunction with painti

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  Stuart Davis, American Modernist Painter

  Stuart Davis () was a prominent American modernist painter. He began working in the realist Ashcan School style, but exposure to European modernist painters in the Armory Show led to a distinctive personal modernist style that influenced the later development of pop art.

  Fast Facts: Stuart Davis

  • Occupation: Painter
  • Movement: Abstract art, modernism, cubism
  • Born: December 7, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Died: June 24, in New York, New York
  • Parents: Helen Stuart Foulke and Edward Wyatt Davis
  • Spouses: Bessie Chosak (died ), Roselle Springer
  • Child: George Earle Davis
  • Selected Works: "Lucky Strike" (), "Swing Landscape" (), "Deuce" ()
  • Notable Quote: "I don't want people to copy Matisse or Picasso, although it is entirely proper to admit their influence. I don't make paintings like theirs. I make paintings like mine."

  Early Life and Education

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Stuart Davis was born on December 7, in Philadelphia, PA. His abstract compositions continue to be examined and his reputation as the most significant American abstract painter before the advent of Abstract Expressionism continues to solidify through the many major museum retrospectives devoted to the art of Stuart Davis that have been presented in recent times bygd the storstads- Museum of Art (), the Whitney Museum of American Art (), and the National Gallery of Art (), to name a few.

Davis was very much at the heart of the naming of The Ashcan School.  Around a certain group of artists (Davis included) contributing to the populist New York socialist magazine called The Masses began to increasingly emphasize class distinctions in their work, satirizing the wealthy and portraying the poor, not sentimentally but as truly disadvantaged. To other Masses artists, such as cartoonist Art Young, such a posture was politically irresponsible. Referring indirectly to George Bellows&rsq