1. Stuart Davis American Painter, 1894-1964
Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors - 7th Avenue Style, 1940.
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2. BIOGRAPHY Born in Philadelphia, Penn.
His mother was a sculptor & his father was an art editor for a newspaper.
He became a Modern Artist
Anchor, 1935

3. Early Work

4. Famous for his Hard-edge paintings
and abstract still lifes and landscapes.
Barbershop Chord, 1931

5. His work shows the environment of American life rearranged into flat poster-like patterns with precise outlines and sharply contrasting colors.
Memo, 1956
Combination Concrete

6. "I paint what I see in America, in other words I paint the American scene." Stuart Davis.
Abstraction, 1937

7. New York Waterfront, Oil on Canvas, 1938

8. Later Work
Painted pure abstract patterns, often used lettering, suggestions of advertisements.
Owh! in San Pao, 1951
Blips and Ifs,

9. The Mellow Pad,

10. Colonial Cubism, Oil on Canvas, 1954

11. Ready to Wear, 1955
Rapt at Rappaport’s, 1952