Modernists' joy in color, form

From: The Boston Globe | Date: October 31, 1997| Author: Robert Taylor, Globe Correspondent | Copyright information
VARIATIONS ON A THEME American Modernism by Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, and Charles Sheeler At: The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, through November

ANDOVER -- ITLKSEZ, Stuart Davis lettered in 1921 beneath a stylized figurative collage-and-watercolor -- "it looks easy." Of course, looks deceive, for his pictures are the result of intense planning, and in the rewarding show of three American modernists at the Addison Gallery through November, he and Ralston...

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