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  • Here, Stuart Davis merits his own wall, with modern but fairly traditional landscapes of New Mexico and Paris hanging side by side with "Egg Beater No. 1," the first in his famous series of that kitchen tool, an electric fan and rubber glove.

    Gertrude Whitney's Gambit Judith H. Dobrzynski 2011

  • A cheerful medley of shapes in bright pinks, blues, yellows, greens, black and white, "The Mellow Pad" is Stuart Davis's evocation of, and homage to, the hip life spawned by the Jazz Age.

    A Painting That Pulses With a Jazz Feeling Judith H. Dobrzynski 2011

  • In the Modernist galleries, five canvases by Stuart Davis line one amazing wall.

    An Uneven Span Across Time Judith H. Dobrzynski 2011

  • James Hyde picked up a heavy house-painting roller, coated it with the heavy acrylic used by sign painters, and reworked photographic prints of details of two works by the early American abstractionist Stuart Davis.

    ARTINFO: In New York: Gallery Openings This Weekend 2010

  • The Austrians are hosting an exhibition themed around the novel 1984 at their cultural forum in midtown, Jack Shainman is showing Jonathan Seliger's enormous reconstructions of everyday objects, and James Hyde is repainting photos of earlier paintings by Stuart Davis.

    ARTINFO: In New York: Gallery Openings This Weekend 2010

  • It will be interesting to see how the show defines "American Realism" and whether that definition includes our home-grown Cubist poet of modern urban life, Stuart Davis, or that celebrant of bohemian domesticity, Milton Avery.

    Motherwell and Modern Life 2010

  • Earl Davis, the son of artist Stuart Davis who died in 1964, entrusted 96 of his father's paintings to Salander for sale but only found out later that 90 had been disposed of.

    Lawrence Salander, New York art dealer who fleeced stars, jailed 2010

  • It's this energy that distinguishes "The Figure 5" from, say, Hartley's "Portrait of a German Officer" from 1914, which also uses emblems and insignia to evoke a man, and works by Stuart Davis, which use typography and commercial images.

    Where Paint and Poetry Meet 2010

  • This is how Jackson Pollock, Stuart Davis, Mark Rothko and other seminal modern American artists got their start.

    Bettina Korek: Is Art Important? 2010

  • This is how Jackson Pollock, Stuart Davis, Mark Rothko and other seminal modern American artists got their start.

    Is Art Important? 2010

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