GLOUCESTER — Looking at a Stuart Davis ... he was just 20, Davis’s work was slipped into New York’s influential Armory Show under the auspices of his mentor, the Ashcan School painter ...

These lovely works could serve as stage backdrops, or as pages in a children's book. What you don't really get from Davis' work after his Ashcan apprenticeship is any sense of turmoil in what was ...

So the fact that “Stuart Davis: In Full Swing,” a major, traveling exhibition now at the Whitney Museum of American Art, would omit Davis’s entire early Ashcan development ... With approximately one ...

Stuart Davis’ ‘The Mellow ... diversions to the real purpose of art. To Davis, Art is best in an Apollonian (calm, controlled, even) state. His works craft a mutt mix that, like it or not ...

A lively exhibition at the de Young Museum, “Stuart Davis: In Full Swing,” is the first opportunity in 25 years to see a comprehensive selection of Davis works on the West Coast. The ...

The association between the painter Stuart Davis and jazz ... with some 100 works on view, and admirably focused, concentrating on Davis’s fascinating habit of returning to earlier work, to ...

His works are emblematic, bold and brash visual statements that reflect street culture, the syncopated rhythms of jazz, and the unbridled optimism enmeshed in the American Dream. “Stuart Davis ...