Back to the beginning with Stuart Davis

Harry Cooper: "This pair shows so much about Davis’s development from somebody in the 1920s who was very involved with American subject matter and even political references. The word “Smith” in House and Street refers to Al Smith, who ran for president. But then in The Mellow Pad—and they’re exactly the same size, which is also significant—he overwrites this with a riot of shapes and colours. The Mellow Pad was a struggle. It took him six years. He wasn&rsquo