Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. At the same time, however, Davis felt a deep attachment to the subject matter of his art, and did not hesitate to ...

BENTONVILLE -- It's not good form to start out a piece about an exemplary and important museum show by talking about its omissions, but I wish "Stuart Davis: In Full Swing" -- the latest major do to ...

Fifty-two years after his death, Stuart Davis is having a breakthrough moment. Not that he isn’t already a major figure in American art. Acclaimed for his innovative work of the 1930s, Davis has long ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - If you're kicking yourself for having missed "In Full Swing," the terrific exhibition on the proto-Pop American abstract painter Stuart Davis that closed at the Whitney Museum of ...

Between the Cubists of the early 20th century and the Pop artists of the 1960s, there was Stuart Davis. A lively exhibition at the de Young Museum, “Stuart Davis: In Full Swing,” is the first ...

Abstract yet concrete. Geometric, but figurative. Stuart Davis was a painter who lived for the contradiction, and yet somehow found resolution in his mesmerising paintings, heralding him as an ...

Many experts claim that America’s first truly original contribution to painting came in the form of the heroic-scaled, grandiose gestural compositions of the Abstract Expressionists of the 1940s, such ...

Art historians and curators offer disparate explanations for Stuart Davis’ absence from the list of American artists who are “household names.” Stuart was ahead of his time, say some. His paintings ...