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Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964

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Personal name headingDavis, Stuart, 1892-1964
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Birth date18921207
Death date19640624
Place of birthPhiladelphia (Pa.)
Place of deathNew York (N.Y.)
Field of activityModernism (Art) Ashcan school of art
Profession or occupationPainters
Found inStuart Davis' New York, 1985: t.p. (Stuart Davis)
LC data base, 2/25/86 (hdg.: Davis, Stuart, 1894-1964)
WW Amer. art, 1947 (Davis, Stuart; b. Dec. 7, 1894)
Stuart Davis, c1987: t.p. (Stuart Davis, 1892-1964)
Sullivan Goss, Feb. 3, 2015 (Stuart David; 1892-1964; abstract painter; considered a forefather of the Pop Art movement, Stuart Davis translated the visual imagery of New York City and the jazz music of the mid-20th Century into iconographic abstract paintings of squiggly lines and flashy colors)
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Wikipedia, Feb. 3, 2015 (Stuart Davis; born December 7, 1892 in Philadelphia; died June 24, 1964 New York City; modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his ashcan pictures in the early years of the 20th century.