Stuart Davis (1892 - 1964), one of America's most widely colleted and written about artists of the twentieth century, was instrumental in the development of American abstraction. Stuart Davis in Gloucester takes the reader through Davis' early career as a painter summering with other artists in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Beginning with Davis' early landscape paintings of the 1920's and ending with his cubist abstractions from the late 1940's, this book explores the influence of Gloucester imagery on Davis' oeuvre.