Stuart Davis "In Full Swing" at THE WHITNEY MUSEUM

James Kalm adores Stuart Davis! This historic exhibition is the first major retrospective for this painter’s work in New York since the Metropolitan Museum’s 1991 survey. Focusing in on Davis’s proto-cubist works, viewers will witness the artistic arc of development from the tobacco paintings, through French Cubism to a radical, jazzy version of what the artist theoretically called “color space” design. Davis not only introduced Americans to cubism, but was also a harbinger of Pop Art, Hard Edge Abstraction as well as textual painting. We’ll get glances of iconic works like “Swing Landscape” “Mellow Pad” and “Little Giant Still Life”. This program was recorded June 8th 2016 at the New Whitney Museum.