Arthur Bowen Davies

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Arthur Bowen Davies
1862-1928
Study of a Nude Woman
n.d.
Red and white chalk, on tan wove paper; laid down.
14 5/8 x 11 inches (37.3 x 27.9 cm)
Bequest of Miss Alice Tully.
1996.158
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An important figure in American art of the late nineteenth-early twentieth century, Davies is perhaps best known as one of the leading organizers of the 1913 Armory Show exhibition that introduced progressive European art to America. Although he is associated with the Ashcan School of artists, with whom he showed in the 1908 exhibition "The Eight," in his own art, as in this sensitively drawn nude, Davies remained indebted to the classical tradition and was inspired by European Symbolist artists such as Puvis de Chavannes. His art is notoriously difficult to date. He typically did not date his work, and except for a brief period following the Armory Show when his work showed the influence of Cubism, his style remained consistent throughout his life. He also used his earlier work as a point of departure for new work.

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A piece cut from the original, bearing the artists name, is adhered to the backboard.

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Alice Tully, New York.
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