Stuart Davis: In Full Swing

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Stuart Davis, The Mellow Pad, 1945–1951. Oil on canvas, 26 1/4 x 42 1/8 in. (66.7 x 107 cm). Brooklyn Museum; bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal, 1992.11.6. © Estate of Stuart Davis / Licensed by VAGA, New YorkStuart Davis, The Mellow Pad, 1945–1951. Oil on canvas, 26 1/4 x 42 1/8 in. (66.7 x 107 cm). Brooklyn Museum; bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal, 1992.11.6. © Estate of Stuart Davis / Licensed by VAGA, New YorkStuart Davis: In Full Swing is the first major exhibition in 20 years dedicated to this key figure in American modernism. Featuring approximately 75 works—spanning from the artist’s breakthrough series in the 1920s focusing on tobacco packages and household objects to the painting left on his easel at his death, in 1964—the exhibition highlights Davis’s unique ability to assimilate the visual languages of European modernism, the imagery of popular culture, the aesthetics of advertising, and the rhythms of jazz into colorful, complex works. Blurring distinctions between “high” and “low” art, between abstraction and figuration, and between text and imagery, these paintings reflect both the excitement and turbulence of the artist’s times.Davis was a lifelong jazz enthusiast, and his working method of appropriating and reworking his own earlier compositions shares with that musical genre the concept of variations on a theme, and similarly conveys a distinctly modern sense of dynamism and vibrancy. This is the first major exhibition to install works from different periods of the artist’s career alongside one another to explore their persistent thematic and visual interconnections. Davis’s innovative works paved the way for major developments in American postwar art such as Pop, and they remain resonant, relevant, and influential today.This exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.Major support is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.       Tickets not yet available.

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Stuart Davis: In Full Swing de Young Museum | de Young Main address: de Young Museum | de Young 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive CA 94118 San Francisco, الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية de Young Museum | de Young 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive CA 94118 San Francisco, الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية Stuart Davis, The Mellow Pad, 1945–1951. Oil on canvas, 26 1/4 x 42 1/8 in. (66.7 x 107 cm). Brooklyn Museum; bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal, 1992.11.6. © Estate of Stuart Davis / Licensed by VAGA, New YorkStuart Davis, The Mellow Pad, 1945–1951. Oil on canvas, 26 1/4 x 42 1/8 in. (66.7 x 107 cm). Brooklyn Museum; bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal, 1992.11.6. © Estate of Stuart Davis / Licensed by VAGA, New YorkStuart Davis: In Full Swing is the first major exhibition in 20 years dedicated to this key figure in American modernism. Featuring approximately 75 works—spanning from the artist’s breakthrough series in the 1920s focusing on tobacco packages and household objects to the painting left on his easel at his death, in 1964—the exhibition highlights Davis’s unique ability to assimilate the visual languages of European modernism, the imagery of popular culture, the aesthetics of advertising, and the rhythms of jazz into colorful, complex works. Blurring distinctions between “high” and “low” art, between abstraction and figuration, and between text and imagery, these paintings reflect both the excitement and turbulence of the artist’s times.Davis was a lifelong jazz enthusiast, and his working method of appropriating and reworking his own earlier compositions shares with that musical genre the concept of variations on a theme, and similarly conveys a distinctly modern sense of dynamism and vibrancy. This is the first major exhibition to install works from different periods of the artist’s career alongside one another to explore their persistent thematic and visual interconnections. Davis’s innovative works paved the way for major developments in American postwar art such as Pop, and they remain resonant, relevant, and influential today.This exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.Major support is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.       Tickets not yet available. Book tickets