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Morris Davidson

Morris Davidson (1898 - 1979) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts / Europe.  Morris Davidson is known for Non objective, abstract painting, illustration, teaching.

Morris Davidson (Rochester 1898—New York City 1979)

Born to Sophia and Harris Davidson, Morris studied art in Baltimore, where he spent much of his childhood, and between 1916 and 1918 at the Art Institute of Chicago.  Davidson continued his education in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1920 when he studied there with George Elmer Browne. 

He had the opportunity to see the work of twentieth-century modernists in Paris when he went there to study painting in 1923-24, and when he returned to Europe about seven years later. French art would influence the development of his own approach to abstraction upon his return to the US. 

Almost from the start, Davidson was a teacher as well as a student, having been an instructor in painting and drawing at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in 1921-22, at the Art Institute of Chicago, in Rockport, Massachusetts, and elsewhere.  From 1935 on, he operated his own successful art schools in Provincetown and New Yo   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3637 characters.]  Artist bio

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