Stuart Davis
United States, 1894–1964

Born in Philadelphia on December 7, 1894, Stuart Davis was an American painter
and printmaker. He was born into an artistic family—his parents studied at the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and his father was the art editor at the
Philadelphia Press.

Davis studied art under Robert Henri in New York between 1909 and 1912. His
earliest works chronicle urban life in the streets. In 1913, he abandoned his Realist
style and began to develop style derived from Cubism. In 1942 to 1943, he produced
several paintings depicting abstract images created from natural forms.