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Original works by Stuart Davis available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ivy League, 1953
Untitled
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
8 works online
Stuart Davis at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Report from Rockport, 1940
Semé, 1953
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
2 works by Stuart Davis online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Sixth Avenue El, 1931
(In the "Lithograph" section)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
7 works online
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Blips and Ifs
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Self-Portrait, 1919
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
2 works online
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
New Jersey Landscape (Seine Cart)
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Some information about Davis, and a group photograph that include the artist
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Composition Concrete, 1957
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum scheduled to open in 2009
Still Life with Flowers, 1930
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
2 works online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Electric Bulb, 1924
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Landscape With Broken Machine
Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont
New York Attic Window, 1928
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Shapes of Landscape Space
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Waterfront
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Place Pasdeloup, No. 2, 1929
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Place des Vosges, No. 2
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Schooner and Garage, 1922
Stuart Davis in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Composition
Landscape with Garage Lights
Stuart Davis at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Stuart Davis, drawing, ca.1927
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
Summer Landscape #2, 1939
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
New York Mural, 1932
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Barbershop Chord, 1931
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Portrait of a Man, 1914
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian) 
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Click thumbnail #6
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Arch Hotel
Stuart Davis at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Super Table, 1925
The Huntington Library, California
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Hoboken, 1916
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City NEW!
New York - Paris No. 1, 1931
University of Kentucky Art Museum
Barber Shop Chord, 1931
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Little Giant Still Life, 1950
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
2 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Egg Beater No. 1, 1927
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Stuart Davis at The Athenaeum
Stuart Davis in the WebMuseum
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
PBase Photo Sharing
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Still Life with Saw, 1930
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artnet Artist Works Catalogues 
Graphic Witness: Visual Arts & Social Commentary
Political cartoon
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Stuart Davis
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Biography only
Resource Library Magazine
Stuart Davis in Gloucester I
Resource Library Magazine
Stuart Davis in Gloucester II
Spartacus Educational Books
War Artists of W.W.I.
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Late-Cubist Davis, An Abstract Master Right to the End
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Vast Diarist Davis Has Exquisite Show At Morgan Library
The Washington Post
"Painting the 20th Century," article by Paul Richard
Time Magazine
"Stuart Davis: The City Boy's Eye", 1978 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Seeing Life in Jazz Tempo", 1992 article by Robert Hughes
Multimedia:
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Interview with the artist (RealAudio format)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity
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Stuart Davis in Gloucester
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