GLOUCESTER — Looking at a Stuart Davis painting can feel like seeing sound — bright, ebullient, jazzy, kinetic, a jangle of overlapping notes cohering — often barely — into a symphonic ...

The association between the painter Stuart Davis and jazz is so strong that you may imagine you can hear the piano of Earl Hines or the trumpet of Louis Armstrong in the background of the National ...

The Stuart Davis exhibition, “In Full Swing,” does anything but. Search. Search. ... (up until August 6 at the de Young) of a virtuoso painter, known for his jamming of chic European modernism ...

Despite the over half-century of Davis research that has followed the artist’s death in 1964, a complete chronology has only recently come to light with the publication of his catalogue raisonné by ...

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 ...

Stuart Davis said jazz was one of the things that made him want to paint, and he credited jazz with influencing the development of his vibrant style. Jackson Pollock's action painting technique ...

In 1937, Stuart Davis received a commission from the WPA Federal Art Project to paint a mural for a low-income public housing development in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Then, the neighborhood was a ...