Swing Landscape, 1938 Stuart Davis (1894-1964)

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We will add 1.6" (4 cm) additional blank canvas all over the painting for stretching.

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Stuart Davis’s "Swing Landscape" looks like jazz exploded on canvas. You can practically hear the rhythms just by looking at it. Davis gives us a landscape, but it’s like no landscape you’ve ever seen. It’s a frenetic cityscape of shapes and colors colliding like musical notes, where the usual rules of perspective seem to have thrown up their hands and walked off stage.

What do we actually see? Ships? Buildings? Some ladders maybe? It’s all possible and impossible at the same time. Davis was clearly riffing on the idea of a harbor scene, but he’s turned it into a kaleidoscope of abstract forms. The blues, reds, yellows, and greens pulse and vibrate, each color block butting up against another, creating a tension that’s almost palpable. The shapes are sharp and crisp, with bold lines dividing areas like the staccato breaks in a jazz solo. He doesn’t blend his colors; instead, he lets them clash, keeping everything in high contrast like a visual improvisation.

Look closer, and you’ll notice how Davis chops the composition into grids and overlapping planes. It’s as if he’s layering different rhythms and tempos into a single track, everything coexisting in this chaotic harmony. The eye is constantly moving, trying to make sense of it all but never quite settling on one thing - it’s a painting that refuses to sit still.

Davis called his art “American cubism,” but this piece feels even more expansive, pulling in the urban energy of swing music and the modern world. "Swing Landscape" is less about what’s painted and more about how it moves you - a true visual jazz session, with each color and shape playing its part in an endless improvisation.