Stuart Davis (painter)

Stuart Davis (1940).

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

"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)