Arthur Bowen Davies Paintings

Arthur B. Davies Figure Composition, circa 1910 Oil on canvas 6 x 12 inches Provenance: The artist Feragil Gallery, New York Marguerite Ward Smith & LeRoy P. Ward Wesleyan University (gift from the above) Christie's East, American Paintings, December 2, 1992, Lot 369 Private Collection, Scarsdale, New York Arthur B. Davies was pivotal in organizing the groundbreaking 1913 Armory Show, bringing avant gard European artists to America: Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Archipenko, Odilon Redon, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Marcel Duchamp, Frances Picabia, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Mary Cassatt, Manet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, James McNeill Whistler. The Armory show brought Symbolism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, and Cubism to American artists and collectors visiting its three venues in the 'New World'; New York, Chicago and Boston. Davies was himself, a painter more attached late 19th century French influences, particularly the stylized, symbolist works of Puvis de Chavannes. He was a muralist and printmaker of visionary landscapes inhabited by dreamy, Arcadian figures, whose works found great support among collectors as can be seen by the enormous list of museums with his collected his works - but who will forever by remembered for his role in introducing modernism to America. Born in Utica, New York, Davies showed an early interest in mechanics, sports and art. He first studied privately with Dwight Williams...

Modernist sunset landscape with a mother and child by Arthur Bowen Davies (1862 - 1928). Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Unsigned. Displayed in a giltwood frame. Provenance from the 1913 Armory Show, James Michener...