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Aug 15, 2018 · Arthur B. Davies’s mystical, mysterious paintings hearken back to 19th-century romanticism, even while Davies aligned himself with American artists advancing the most radical ideals of their day. Davies was born on September 26, 1862, in Utica, New York, the son of English and Welsh parents who had immigrated to the United States in 1856.
Arthur B. Davies (born Sept. 26, 1862, Utica, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 24, 1928, Florence, Italy) was an American painter, printmaker, and tapestry designer known for his idylls of classical fantasy painted in a Romantic style but best remembered for his leadership in introducing modern European painting styles into early 20th-century America.
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Utica, N.Y., 1862–Florence, 1928. Arthur B. Davies was an American painter and one of the principal organizers of the 1913 Armory Show in New York. As an avid proponent of contemporary art, he amassed a large collection of American and European modernism. Davies was always interested in drawing as a child and showed interest in becoming an ...
Arthur B. Davies was an American artist known for his paintings of nymphs and unicorns amidst pastoral landscapes. Born Arthur Bowen Davies on September 26, 1862 in Utica, NY, he went on attend the Chicago Academy of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago. After relocating to New York, Davies worked as a magazine illustrator while taking night ...
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Starting in 1900, Davies produced lyrical, imaginative landscapes that often included classical or allegorical references. In this evocative pastel, he uses a vivid palette applied with broad strokes to suggest the distant landscape and unidentified hill town, revealing his debt to the ethereal and expressive Tonalist landscapes of George ...
In 1908 the art critic James Gibbons Huneker described this picture as follows: “One woman of noble contour walks as in a dream through a delicious landscape. She has come from a dream and is crossing the bridge of transition; soon she shall be enveloped in the splendors and terrors of a new dream.”
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