Stuart Davis (painter)
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Stuart Davis (December 7, 1894 - June 24, 1964), American painter, was born in Philadelphia to Edward Wyatt Davies and Helen Stuart Davies. His parents were both worked in the arts. His father was the art editor of the Philadelphia Press while his mother was a sculptor.
Davis studied painting, and art under Robert Henri, the leader of the early modern art group the Eight; he was one of the youngest painters to exhibit in the controversial Armory Show of 1913. Exposed as he was at this exhibition to the work of such artists as Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, he became a committed "modern" artist and a major exponent of cubism in America.
He is probably most famous for his abstract still lifes and landscapes; his use of contemporary subject matter such as cigarette packages, spark plug advertisements and the contemporary American landscape make him a proto-Pop artist.
Davis died of a stroke in New York on June 24, 1964.
[edit] Selected works
 Garage No. 1, 1917. |
 Tree and Urn, 1921. |
 Lucky Strike, 1921. |
 Steeple and Street, 1922. |
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