Stuart Davis: Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors

Stuart Davis, Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors - 7th Avenue Style, 1940

This iconic abstraction from the fantastic American modernist Stuart Davis is part of the Lane Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Davis is known for capturing in paint the bright energy of jazz. This is no small part of the reason I love his work so. I've noticed that the MFA is not as strong in American modernism as other museums, for example, the Art Institute of Chicago, but the Lane collection is a well constructed gem, with works from O'Keefe, Dove, Stieglitz, Adams and so many more. The MOMA website has a good intro essay to Davis' life and work.

UPDATE: January 2015
In this new post I look at a detail from this iconic painting . MB