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Charles Harold Davis

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Charles Harold Davis (1856 - 1933) was active/lived in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts / France.  Charles Davis is known for Cloudscape painting, portrait, landscape, animal, figure.

Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, Charles Davis became one of the more recognized of the Tonalist and Impressionist painters in America. He was also the leading member of the colony of artists who gathered at Mystic, Connecticut. His early landscapes that gave him the reputation for Tonalism and that resulted from his visit to Barbizon, France, depicted every hour from dawn to sunset with a subtlety of form and color. However, in the mid 1890s, his style changed dramatically to Impressionism.

Davis did not set out to be an artist, and he had early employment in a carriage factory. However, after attending an exhibition featuring works by Jean Francois Millet, French Barbizon-School painter, he, with the encouragement of his father, enrolled in 1877 in the newly founded school at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. His teacher was Otto Grundman.

In 1880, a local businessman who was highly impressed with the talents of Davis gave him a thousand dollars to study in France. He en   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6026 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Charles Harold Davis

   Publications  Book References:  73
Magazine References:  13

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13 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Charles Harold Davis
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review American Artists Abroad and Their I October 2004 Stula, Nancy Yes
American Art Review Childe Hassam and Connecticut Impre August 2004 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin Yes
American Art Review The American Artist in Connecticut August 2002 Andersen, Jeffrey W Yes
American Art Review Early Years of the Lyme Art Association August 2002 Bond, Pamela G. Yes
ARTnews The Verdict October 1999 Kotz, Mary Lyn No
Art & Antiques American Barbizon September 1998 Ross, Carolee Yes
American Art Review William Benton Museum of Art June 1997 Cummings, Hildegard Yes
American Art Review Bruce Museum June 1997 Hall-Duncan, Nancy Yes
American Art Review Lyman Allyn Art Museum June 1997 Munger, Susan H Yes
American Art Review Mattatuck Museum June 1997 Smith, Ann/F Chamberlain Yes
American Art Review East Meets West: American Impressio April 1997 Coles, William Yes
American Art Review Art Is Upon the Town May 1996 Schuster, Willa Yes
The Magazine Antiques Charles H Davis: Painter of Poetic November 1995 Colville, Thomas Yes
73 Book References for Charles Harold Davis
Year Author Title Pages Color
2010 Cleveland, David Adams A History of American Tonalism 592 Yes
2009 Coe, Erin B. (Essay) An Enduring Legacy: American Impressionist Landscapes from the Thomas Clark Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Sessions, Ralph (Intro); Nicolai Cikovsky, Ellen Denker, et all The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism (Spanierman Galleries, LLC.)
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 Yes
2004 Cleveland, David Adams Intimate Landscapes: Charles Warren Eaton and the Tonalist Movement in American Art, 1880-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 114 Yes
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2004 Pyle, Amy (Spanierman Gallery) Art for the New Collector III Re-Emerging American Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
2004 Vose, Marcia (editor) Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Circles of Influence, A Timeline 38 Yes
2003 Leeds, Valerie (Essay) Dreams and Dramas: Moonlight and Twilight in American Art (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 Yes
2003 Richter, Marianne; Wendy Greenhouse (Essays) Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection 308 Yes
2002 Old Lyme Art Association The Early Years Paintings from Private Connecticut Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 20 Yes
2002 The Florence Griswold Museum The American Artist in Connecticut The Legacy of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
2001 Weinberg, H Barbara; S Larkin American Impressionists Abroad And at Home 0 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Jarzombek, NA, Marcia Vose Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America 29 Yes
1997 Vose Galleries Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America, Part Two 35 Yes
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 408 Yes
1991 Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll. Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam 271 Yes
1991 Weinberg, H Barbara The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers 295 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1989 Blaugrund, Annette Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition
(Exhibition catalog)		 304 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Preato, Robert R.; Dr. Sandra L. Langer Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Transformations 1885-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 Yes
1987 Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1986 Carr, Carolyn K The Edwin C Shaw Collection of American Impressionist & Tonalist Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Huneker, James G/Arnold Schwab Americans in the Arts 1890-1920 672 No
1984 Gerdts, William H American Impressionism
(Exhibition catalog)		 336 Yes
1984 Kopitske, Christine (Editor) American Reflections: Paintings 1830-1940 Pomona and Scripps Colleges, Claremont, California
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1983 Detroit Institute of the Arts The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 Yes
1982 Gerdts, William H (others) Tonalism An American Experience
(Exhibition catalog)		 94 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1980 Burke, Doreen Bolger American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64 479 No
1980 Spencer, Harold; Susan Larkin, Jeffrey Andersen (Essays) Connecticut and American Impressionism (William Benton Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 184 Yes
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1978 Berman, Greta Mural Painting in New York City: Under the WPA Federal Art Project 300 No
1977 Rhode Island School of Design American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930 241 No
1976 Quick, Michael American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (The Dayton Art Institute)
(Exhibition catalog)		 158 Yes
1976 Wadsworth Atheneum The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes 96 Yes
1975 Bermingham, Peter American Art in the Barbizon Mood
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1974 Boyle, Richard American Impressionism 238 Yes
1974 New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts 192 Yes
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Hoopes, Donelson F The American Impressionists 160 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1963 Brown, Milton W The Story of the Armory Show
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1940 Carnegie Institute Survey of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1935 De Young Memorial Museum Exhibition of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
1931 Editors Who's Who in American Art-1931 American Art Annual 0 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1921 Bryant, Lorinda Munson American Pictures & their Painters 307 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
1909 Rathbun, Richard The National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Inst, Bulletin 70 140 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 281 No
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