Stuart Davis (1892 -1964), one of America's most widely collected and written about artists of the twentienth century, was instrumental in the development of American abstraction.

Stuart Davis in Gloucester takes the reader through Davis's early career as a painter summering with other artists in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Beginning with Davis's early landscape paintings of the 1920's and ending with his cubist abstractions of the late 1940's, this book explores the influence of Gloucester imagery on Davis's oeuvre through beautiful reproductions of over 60 paintings and 20 sketches. It features an essay by renowned art critic and scholar Karen Wilkin and an introduction by Judith McCulloch from the Cape Ann Historical Museum.

The book is printed in conjuction with a traveling exposition of Davis' work, which will be exhibited at the National Academy Museum, New York, New York until July 2000.