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Harry Davis Jr

Harry Allen Davis, Jr. (1914 - 2006) was active/lived in Indiana.  Harry Davis Jr is known for Landscape.

 

Born in Hillsboro Indiana in 1914, he moved to Brownsburg in 1920.  He entered Herron School of Art in 1933 and earned his BFA in 1938, the same year he won Prix de Rome in Painting.  He spent the third year with the academy in New York City.  In 1941 he was named Artist-in-residence at Beloit College, Wisconsin.

After enlisting in the Army in 1942, he designed camouflage in North Africa and in 1944 became a combat artist with the Fifth Army Historical unit in Italy.  The drawings and paintings completed during this time are property of the War Department at the Pentagon.  His studio was located in Brownsburg until 1960.  At that time, he began an ongoing series of paintings of landmarks that interested him and has since completed over 500 of these paintings.

For 37 years he taught drawing and painting at the Herron School of Art and was proclaimed Professor Emeritus.  In 1971, the school recognized his 25th year of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1799 characters.]  Artist bio

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