Robert Henri
Stuart Davis was born on December 7, 1892, in Philadelphia to Edward Wyatt Davis, art editor of "The Philadelphia Press", and Helen Stuart Davis, sculptor. Starting in 1909, Davis began his formal art training under Robert Henri, the leader of the Ashcan School, at the Robert Henri School of Art in New York under 1912. During this time, Davis befriended painters John Sloan, Glenn Coleman and Henry Glintenkamp.