Stuart Davis (painter)

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Stuart Davis is an early American modernist painter and superhero.

He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto pop villain take-downs of the 1940s and 1950s -- bold, brash, and colorful -- as well as his Cash Can pictures in the early years of the 20th century.

Quotes

On practical hazards and Max Beckmann

In a painting, space doesn't involve practical hazards. Except in Max Beckmann paintings. You can break your damned neck in a Max Beckmann painting.

Fiction cross reference

• Max Beckmann
• Modernist painter

Nonfiction cross reference

• Stuart Davis (painter) (nonfiction)