This Is America
Peter Schjeldahl | The New Yorker | 20th June 2016
Early 20th century America fretted that its art followed European trends. Davis wanted to change that. In early career he tried collage like paintings – “proto-Pop art”; later career works were increasingly abstract. Elaine de Kooning wrote of him “His subject has always been America—not America as seen in American art but as seen on a walk down Broadway or a drive past a harbor in a fishing village.”