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UNITED STATES / New York: STUART DAVIS
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday September 25 2016

Whitney Museum of American Art
T : + 1 (212) 570 3600
99 Gansevoort Street
10014 New York
United States



IN FULL SWING

Stuart Davis (1892–1964) ranks as a preeminent figure in American modernism. With a long career that stretched from the early twentieth century well into the postwar era, he brought a distinctively American accent to international modernism. Davis’s work feels especially vital today in its blurring of distinctions between text and image, high and low culture, and abstraction and figuration.

With approximately 100 works, from the paintings of tobacco packages and household objects of the early 1920s to the work left on his easel at his death in 1964, In Full Swing will highlight Davis’s unique ability to assimilate the imagery of popular culture, the aesthetics of advertising, the lessons of Cubism, and the sounds and rhythms of jazz into works that hum with intelligence and energy.

© Modem