Stuart Davis Manner Original Vintage WPA Proto Pop Contemporary American Still Life Composition Modernist Oil Painting Modern Art Dated 1945
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 1940's and 1950's, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his Ashcan paintings, in the early years of the 20th century.
Stuart Davis was born in 1892, in Philadelphia to Edward Wyatt Davis, art editor of the Philadelphia Press, and Helen Stuart Davis, sculptor.
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, in 1912. During this time, Davis befriended painters John Sloan, Glenn Coleman, and Henry Glitenkamp.
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. In the show, Davis was exposed to the works of a number of artists including Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse. Davis became a committed "modern" artist and a major exponent of cubism, and modernism in America. He spent summers painting in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and, and made painting trips to Havana, in 1918 and New Mexico, in 1923.
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.
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". In 1934, he joined the Artists' Union; he was later elected its President. In 1936, the American Artists' Congress elected him National Secretary.
He painted murals for Federal Arts Project, of the Works Progress Administration, (WPA), which are influenced by his love of Jazz. 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.
Davis passed away of a stroke, in New York on June 24, 1964, at aged 71.
Among the public collections holding work by Stuart Davis are:
• Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, Massachusetts)
• Amon Carter Museum (Texas)
• Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (New York)
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Block Museum of Art (Northwestern University, Illinois)
• Brooklyn Museum (New York City)
• Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Arkansas)
• Currier Museum of Art (New Hampshire)
• Dallas Museum of Art (Texas)
• Dayton Art Institute (Ohio)
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Robert Hull Fleming Museum (University of Vermont)
• Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (University of Oklahoma)
• Harvard University Art Museums
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.)
• Honolulu Museum of Art
• the Hyde Collection (Glens Falls, New York)
• Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York)
• Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, Missouri)
• Maier Museum of Art (Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Montclair Art Museum (New Jersey)
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas)
• Museum of Modern Art (New York City)
• National Gallery of Australia (Canberra)
• National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C.)
• Nevada Museum of Art
• Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, Florida)
• Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Oklahoma)
• Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, California)
• Palazzo Ruspoli (Rome)
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia)
• the Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.)
• Pierpont Morgan Library (New York City)
• Pomona College Museum of Art (California)
• Portland Museum of Art (Maine)
• San Diego Museum of Art (California)
• Sheldon Art Gallery (Lincoln, Nebraska)
• Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.)
• Springfield Museum of Art (Ohio)
• Tacoma Art Museum (Washington)
• Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid)
• U.S. Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.)
• University of Kentucky Art Museum
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
• Walker Art Center (Minnesota)
• Westmoreland Museum of American Art (Greensburg, Pennsylvania)
• Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City)
• Yale University Art Gallery (Connecticut)
Catalogued Stuart Davis Online Comparable Work: https://worleygig.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/img_12901-e1447185844615.jpg
("Edison Mazda")
Stuart Davis, Manner of
(1894-1964)
14"X18"
Still Life
Oil on Canvas Board
'45, (date hand written), on Reverse
Very light writing on reverse. Due to lack of clear signature on the painting, painting is listed in the manner of, as an attribution to Stuart Davis.
Very good condition; all original. In original 1940's frame. No overpaints.
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