Arthur B. Davies
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Arthur Bowen Davies (September 26, 1863 – October 24, 1928) was an avant-garde American artist.
He was born in Utica, New York and studied at the Chicago Academy of Design from 1879 to 1882. He briefly attended the Art Institute of Chicago and then moved to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League.
Davies was a principal organizer of the 1913 Armory Show and was a member of The Eight, a group of painters including five associated with the Ashcan school: William Glackens (1870-1938), Robert Henri (1865-1929), George Luks (1867-1933), Everett Shinn (1876-1953) and John French Sloan (1871-1951), along with Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Ernest Lawson (1873-1939) and Maurice Prendergast (1859-1924). Davies is best known for his ethereal figure paintings. He worked as a billboard painter, engineering draftsman, and magazine illustrator.
[edit] Public collections
The Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, Massachusetts), the Block Museum of Art (Northwestern University, Illinois), the Brigham Young University Museum of Art (Utah), the Brooklyn Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art (Ohio), Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Cedarhurst Center for the Arts (Mt. Vernon, Illinois), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art (Texas), the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland, Maine), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Harvard University Art Museums, the Heckscher Museum of Art (Huntington, New York), the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, Georgia), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Maier Museum of Art (Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia), the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (Memphis, Tennessee), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Midwest Museum of American Art (Elkhart, Indiana), the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Montclair Art Museum (New Jersey), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.), the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery (Scripps College, California), the Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, Nebraska), the Smart Museum of Art (University of Chicago), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.), the Walker Art Center (Minnesota), and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art (Greensburg, Pennsylvania), the Worcester Art Museum (Massachusetts) are among the public collections holding work by Arthur Bowen Davies.
[edit] References
- Burroughs, A., The Art of Arthur B. Davies, Print Connoisseur, January 1923, p. 196.
- Czestochowski, Joseph S., The Works of Arthur B. Davies, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1979.
