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- Arthur Bowen Davies was an avant-garde American artist and influential advocate of modern art in the United States c.
- 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.
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The Lives, Loves, and Art of Arthur B. Davies
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1
Youthful Years in Utica (1862-1879)
Chapter 2
Chicago and the Southwest (1880-1885)
Chapter 3
First Love (1886-1889)
Chapter 4
Marriage and Murder (1890-1892)
Chapter 5
The Golden Bough (1893)
Chapter 6
A Call to Art (1894-1895)
Chapter 7
The Dealer and the Double-Dealer (1896-1898)
Chapter 8
Forging Friendships (1898-1900)
Chapter 9
A Model Liaison (1901-1902)
Chapter 10
New Alliances (1902-1905)
Chapter 11
Reaching the Heights (1905-1907)
Chapter 12
The Eight (1908-1909)
Chapter 13
Two Independents (1910-1911)
Chapter 14
Assuming the Presidency (1911-1912)
Chapter 15
The Armory Assault (1912-1913)
Chapter 16
Modernism and Models (1913-1914)
Chapter 17
Murals, Sculptures, and Prints (1914-1917)
Chapter 18
New Challenges (1917-1924)
Chapter 19
Flight and Freedom (1924-1928)
Chapter 20
The Final Cover-Up (1928-1932)
Epilogue (1929-1967)
Appendix I
One-Man Shows by Arthur B. Davies
Appendi
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Arthur B. Davies straddled the boundaries between the 19th-century romantic tradition and early twentieth-century modernism in the United States. Born in Utica, N.Y., Davies studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1878 and at the Art Students League in New York in 1887. A masterful painter, lithographer and etcher, his art rejected both the realism of Bellows, Hopper, Sloan and others and early experiments in abstraction as seen in the graphic art of John Marin and Max Weber. Beginning around 1900, Davies focused his imagery almost entirely on a personal world of imaginary creatures, allegorical nudes, and dream-like landscapes.
As he gained prominence in the New York City art scene in the late 1890s, Davies became involved with exhibitions at the MacBeth Gallery, where he met and became close with Maurice Prendergast and Robert Henri. In 1904, the National Arts Club hosted an exhibition of Henri and a select group of his followers, including Davies, which was a precursor for the 1908 Exhibition of the Eight held at MacBeth Galler
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Arthur Bowen Davies
American painter
Arthur Bowen Davies (September 26, 1862 – October 24, 1928) was an avant-garde American artist and influential advocate of modern art in the United States c. 1910–1928.
Biography
Davies was born in Utica, New York,[2] the son of David and Phoebe Davies.[3] He was keenly interested in drawing when he was young and, at fifteen, attended a large touring exhibition in his hometown of American landscape art, featuring works by George Inness and members of the Hudson River School. The show had a profound effect on him. He was especially impressed by Inness's tonalist landscapes.[4] After his family relocated to Chicago, Davies studied at the Chicago Academy of Design from 1879 to 1882 and briefly attended the Art Institute of Chicago, before moving to New York City, where he studied at the Art Students League. He worked as a magazine illustrator before devoting himself to painting.
In 1892, Davies married Virginia Meriwether, one of New York State's first female physicians. Her family, suspecting that
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