Stuart Davis

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“Accompanying the only American showings of an exhibition devoted to the painter Stuart Davis (1892 - 1964) at Washington’s National Museum of American Art during the summer of 198 8, this publication offers a fresh look at the quintessential American painter of the early modern period. “An aficionado of jazz who experimented with improvisational composition, Davis created, in the 1920s and 1930s, a spirited American variant of Picasso’s and Braque’s synthetic cubism and anticipated key elements of pop art.” Show more