House and Street
1931
Urbanscape
Oil on Canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Davis’s ‘House and Steet’ depicting lower Manhattan is a vast change from the gritty urbanscapes his paintings in the Ashcan tradition. The artist is seemingly less interested in the occupants of the tenement buildings and embraces modern energy and innovations instead. Davis was intrigued by how technological advances affected American life.
Stuart Davis
Modern Art, American Modernism
Born: 7 December 1892, Pennsylvania, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 24 June 1964, New York, USA
Davis was an early modernist painter. He is known for his jazz-influenced proto-pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. Davis, already a famous painter, felt the negative effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s and was among the first artists to apply for the Federal Arts Project
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