Charles Harold Davis
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Charles Harold Davis (7 January 1856 – 5 August 1933) was an American landscape painter.
Biography
He was born at Amesbury, Massachusetts. A pupil of the schools of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, he was sent to Paris in 1880. Having studied at the Académie Julian under Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger, he went to Barbizon and painted much in the forest of Fontainebleau under the traditions of the men of thirty.Template:Sfn
In 1890, Davis returned to the U.S., settling in Mystic, Connecticut. He shifted to Impressionism in his style, and took up the cloudscapes for which he became best-known.
He became a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1906, and received many awards, including a silver medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1889.Template:Sfn
He is represented by important works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.Template:Sfn
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External links
- Extensive biography from 1995 Magazine Antiques
- Bnet biography
- Twelve exhibition catalogs available as a full-text PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
- [1] Nov 15, 2015 New York Times article on a retrospective of his work at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT.
- Artwork by Charles Harold Davis
- Pages with broken file links
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- 1856 births
- 1933 deaths
- 19th-century American painters
- American male painters
- 20th-century American painters
- American Impressionist painters
- American landscape painters
- National Academy of Design members
- People from Mystic, Connecticut
- 19th-century American male artists
- 20th-century American male artists