Evening

Evening by Arthur B. Davies

Medium

Graphic Arts-Print

Classification

Graphic Arts-Print

Department

Smithsonian Collection

Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Credit

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase

Accession Number

1976.37

Tags

eveningFigure femalemeditation

About the Artist

Arthur B. Davies · 18621928

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...

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