Stuart Davis, American painter and academic (born 1892)

Stuart Davis (painter)

American painter (1892–1964)

Edward Stuart Davis was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto-pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his Ashcan School pictures in the early years of the 20th century. With the belief that…