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Stuart Davis
Study for Swing Landscape, 1938
While working as an artist in the Works Progress Administration Art Project in the 1930s, Davis painted this study for a large mural to be installed in the Williamsburg Housing Project in Brooklyn. Although far from representational, the painting, with its recognizable motifs -- construction machinery, stairs, ladders, cranes, and signs -- and bright, rhythmic colors, reveals Davis' inspirations from jazz and modern urban life. |