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Article: Art; The Unemotional Passion of Stuart Davis
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- The Washington Post
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- May 11, 1994
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"The Drawings of Stuart Davis (1892-1964): The Amazing
Continuity" at the Phillips Collection can't claim the eye-dazzling
razzmatazz of Davis's 1991 painting retrospective at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the 90 pencil-and-ink drawings,
watercolors and gouaches in this show - some large and on canvas -
offer something different: a chance to peer over the shoulder of one
of America's first modernists as he grapples with the advanced
European styles and theories that began arriving in New York shortly
after he did in 1909.
What this show really celebrates is the dogged persistence of
this Pennsylvania-born artist, who, though trained in the
figurative, urban tradition of the ...