Stuart Davis: In Full Swing

In the late 1950s, Davis's art became even more expansive as he enlarged his shapes further and reduced his palette to three colors—red, green, and yellow—along with black and white. He continued to base the majority of his paintings on extant motifs, but now he occasionally selected a close-up or inverted section of an earlier image as his starting point. Playful and animated, Davis's late paintings exude a sense of exhilaration and spontaneity that, in his words, "help to keep the eye of the beholder alive, force him to make observations, and give value to aspects of nature which everyday preoccupations too often leave unnoticed."

Below is a selection of works from Late Work.