Bevy of shows on display at Georgia Museum of Art Jul 24, 2008
" The permanent collection highlights works by such celebrated masters as Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keefe, Stuart Davis, Frederick Church and Arthur Dove, along with a compilation of Italian Renaissance paintings, Asian works and Southern decorative arts. In addition to featuring some of its most noted works, the museum has reopened with four other presentations, the focus of the latest "After Hours at GMOA," which will be hosted by the Friends of the Museum's Young at Art committee and is set... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Joseph Solman, preeminent painter at crossroads of 20th-century American art Apr 18, 2008
His friends included the photographers Berenice Abbott and Aaron Siskind and the painters Stuart Davis and Willem de Kooning. He edited a radical magazine, Art Front, with the critics Meyer Schapiro and Harold Rosenberg. (Boston Globe)
Weekend Calendar Mar 27, 2008
7 p.m., Englert Theatre Ying Quartet and Tod Machover, 7:30 p.m., Hancher Auditorium CD Release Show for The Diplomats of Solid Sound with JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound and The Uniphonics, 9 p.m., Picador Lunatix on Pogostix, 9 p.m., Yacht Club Stuart Davis CD Release, 9 p.m., Mill. WORDS , nonfiction, 7 p.m., Prairie Lights Books. (Daily Iowan, IA)
William Scharf Dec 27, 2007
A little Kandinsky, a little Stuart Davis, Sharf's paintings jangle and spin with shards of warm color. He handles paint deftly, interchanging hard planes with vaporous squibs and passages that seem translucent. (Boston Globe)
Elizabeth Murray, 1940-2007 Aug 15, 2007
In that search, Murray would turn out to be a brilliant synthesizer, blending influences from Stuart Davis, from Picasso and Miro, and from the comic strips she loved as a kid. She didn't care if her inspirations were high or low, so long as they got her where she wanted to go. (Time.com)
Vivid paintings draw on Columbine's darkness May 11, 2007
"Bachelor's Bounty" features works by Stuart Davis, Sol LeWitt, and Clyfford Still. An Andy Warhol hangs at the top of a staircase glimpsed through the floor-to-ceiling windows of a three-story apartment in "Urban Sleek" ; we're viewing life refracted through the modernist grid. (Boston Globe)
In a museum, out of Alzheimer's grip Apr 16, 2007
In one of the most dramatic cases, a man who had been quiet throughout the tour began speaking eloquently about jazz in New York City in the 1940s as he gazed at a painting by Stuart Davis. "It taps into that person's core self," Goodwin said. (Boston Globe -- Local)
HSBC, up 64%, says it won't branch out Mar 7, 2007
But while the former Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation is keen to extend its reach in the major cities such as Sydney, where it is headquartered and has 12 branches, Stuart Davis, chief executive of its Australian division, believes all of his competitors are "fully priced". "An acquisition at current prices doesn't make a lot of sense to us," said Mr Davis yesterday, after announcing a 64 per cent increase in regional pre-tax profit to $US182 million ($234. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
A Vivid Account Mar 3, 2007
REVIEW / SFMOMA exhibition demonstrates how large Picasso loomed over American art. " It sends the visitor away with a sense of every modern artwork as the product of many minds, however many hands may have formed it. Picasso and American Art: Paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Through May 28. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., San Francisco. (415) 357-4000, . E-mail Kenneth Baker at . This article appeared on page E - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle FromColma Buick... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Picasso's Influence On American Artists Jan 22, 2007
The idea is to show Picasso's influence in this country by displaying his works juxtaposed with some by the likes of Stuart Davis, Willem de Kooning and Jasper Johns ... Soon Americans like Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis and Weber became so adept at echoing Picasso that recognizing who painted what can be a challenge. (CBS News)
Bruce Museum looks at contentious relationship between Chase, Henri Jan 21, 2007
"For the two to disagree about teaching was quite an important thing, and it had an effect on hundreds of artists they taught." (Their students who went on to become important artists include George Bellows, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe and Charles Sheeler. . (Stamford Advocate)
6 great museums in Sunshine State Jan 19, 2007
Extensive American artwork includes Georgia O'Keeffe, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. Special exhibits: Through March 11: "Collecting the Impressionists: Masterpieces From the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute," works including Monet, Renoir, Degas; Feb. 10-May 6: "Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstractions," 40 works using circular motifs. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Review: The Girl with the Gallery Jan 13, 2007
This largely unheralded figure from the midcentury New York art scene, with an impressive roster of artists that included Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Charles Sheeler and Jacob Lawrence, is presented here as a superior saleswoman who had to fight for everything she earned. There was almost no market for American art, abstract or realist, when Halpert opened Our Gallery (soon renamed the Downtown Gallery) in Greenwich Village in 1926. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Painting the West Jan 3, 2007
As she says of the painter Stuart Davis: "Although Davis later complained that the landscape (of the Southwest) comprised 'forms made to order, to imitate,' he admits that the New Mexico landscape is modern and, therefore, to paint it is to imitate literal form in order to make a modern picture.". So the Southwest is a "modern" landscape, and therefore not only appealing to modern artists but inspirational. (Durango Herald)
The afterlife of influence Jan 1, 2007
Paintings of fractured dark forests and African figurines open the Whitney exhibit, as pioneering Yankee modernists like Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Stuart Davis start grappling with Picasso in 1911, only a few years after he invented cubism. Desperate to wake America from the provincial dream of realism, these artists used the liberated geometric structure of Picasso's landscapes to build their own, distinctly American spaces, complete with enchanted trees, bright ads, and big signatures. (Boston Globe)
Book Review: The Girl with the Gallery Dec 28, 2006
He introduced her to Stuart Davis, arguably the greatest artist she represented. Edith opened the gallery on West 13th Street in 1926; she ran it until 1970, when, after several years of increasing disorientation, exacerbated by alcohol, she died of a brain tumor. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The vibrant, colorful paintings of a vibrant, colorful painter Aug 13, 2006
Folly Cove" (1921) has her reveling in oils -- she had a taste for garish colors, and here the yellow sea foams white and the sand burns coral orange. Her touch is light but confident, carving out sea and rocky coast with easy strokes and drawing in figures on the beach with easy black gestures, delineating individuals yet making each a part of the compositional whole.Gloucester was a bustling artists colony in those days. Stuart Davis lived across the street, and painters and etchers Ellen Day... (Boston Globe -- Living)
What Do They Do With $2.8 Million? Jun 1, 2006
"Still Life With Flowers," a lively and whimsical work by Stuart Davis, was being unloaded by the State Department, which had drawn criticism for staging a traveling exhibition that included works by leftist artists ... The painting stayed at the Art Institute for 13 years until someone pointed out, as Bangser put it, that "Stuart Davis is hot and this particular painting is very important in his line of work.". (Ocnus.net)
Chicago chefs try to stand the heat on 'Iron Chef' Jan 31, 2006
Team Tru, consisting of Tramonto, Gand and executive sous chef Stuart Davis, battled Iron Chef Mario Batali, the robust, pony-tailed Italian chef from New York, in a fennel-themed contest. Cantu was up against Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto, the stoic Japanese chef of Nobu fame, and beets. (Chicago Sun-Times)
"From The Art Of New York" Fundraiser To Benefit Katrina Victims Jan 7, 2006
Exhibiting artists include Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Yoko Ono, LeRoy Neiman, Peter Max, Tom Otterness, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Gehry, Danny Simmons, Kiki Smith, James Rosenquist, Stuart Davis, Gregory Amenoff, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Duston Spear, Mimi Gross, Marisol, Zigi Ben-Haim, De La Vega, and special honoree Kendall Shaw, plus others. In conjunction with the exhibit, a Mardi Gras gala and art auction will take place the night of Tuesday, February 28, with auction items to include a... (NY1 News)
