Angled Beauty
Arthur B. Davies
1918
Medium
softground etching and aquatint in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 20 x 30.48 cm (7 7/8 x 12 in.) sheet: 27.94 x 38.1 cm (11 x 15 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of David P. Tunick
Accession Number
2009.127.3
About the Artist
Arthur B. Davies · 1862–1928
Arthur Bowen Davies (1862–1928) occupies one of the most paradoxical positions in American art history: a painter whose own canvases were lyrical, dreamlike, and rooted in the classical tradition, yet whose organizational energy and curatorial vision helped force American audiences into direct confrontation with the European avant-garde. Born on 26 September 1862 in Utica, New York, to English and...