# Stuart Davis artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T19:58:38.822Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: American modernism
- Common media: Painting, Prints and graphic work, Works on paper

## Portrait

![Stuart Davis](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Archives_of_American_Art_-_Stuart_Davis_-_2053_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Archives_of_American_Art_-_Stuart_Davis_-_2053_%28cropped%29.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archives_of_American_Art_-_Stuart_Davis_-_2053_(cropped).jpg

## About Stuart Davis

Stuart Davis (1892–1964) was an American modernist painter associated in reference sources with bold color, jazz references, and urban subject matter. These characteristics help distinguish his artistic identity, although any individual work still requires object-level examination. Collectors may encounter Davis through paintings, graphic work, works on paper, and prints, while auction indexes also place some matched records in broader mixed-media and edition categories. Bibliographic records document a catalogue raisonné devoted to his prints, accompanied by related paintings, making edition and catalogue information particularly relevant when researching graphic works. Davis has stable artist records at major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, Getty ULAN, and international library authorities. That institutional coverage supports reliable entity matching across museum collections, search results, image discovery, and appraisal research. His full name is also recorded as Edward Stuart Davis, an alias that may appear in historical or market documentation.

## Common works and media

Appraisily's matched auction index groups records under fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. The strongest independent bibliographic support concerns Davis's paintings, prints, and broader graphic work, including a published catalogue raisonné of the prints. Broader auction categories should therefore be treated as discovery labels and verified against the individual object's medium, authorship, edition status, and catalogue information.

## Market and appraisal context

A Stuart Davis appraisal should begin with object-level identification and comparison against public sales of similar medium, dimensions, date, and type. Condition, restoration, surface quality, signature or inscriptions, attribution confidence, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references may all affect how relevant a comparable result is. For prints, edition information and catalogue identification deserve particular attention; unique paintings or works on paper require close comparison by date, scale, and subject. Realized prices should also be checked for sale date, reporting currency, and whether buyer premiums or other fees are included. Broad artist medians and category summaries are useful orientation, but they should not substitute for verified, like-for-like comparables or a qualified appraisal.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Private sales, incomplete feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q704588
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115507
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/029911109
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/1412
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/stuart-davis-2381
- Encyclopædia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stuart-Davis
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.3881.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Davis_(painter)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/stuart-davis/